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Domain forwarding is a feature of Domain Name System (DNS) that allows a DNS server to act as a forwarding proxy for requests made to an Internet domain name that is not the DNS server’s own domain name. When a DNS server receives a request for a domain name that is not the DNS server’s own domain name, the DNS server can look up the domain name’s corresponding IP address (a number that uniquely identifies a computer on the network) using a well-known DNS query.

The DNS server then can use that IP address to forward the request to the correct server on the network.

Domain forwarding is often used by large organizations that have more than one domain name. For example, a company might have a domain name (for example, www.example.com) and a domain name (for example, support.com) that are both associated with the same IP address.

Domain forwarding can help the organization manage its domain names by allowing one domain name (for example, www.com) to be used to access the company’s web servers while the support.com domain name is used to access the company’s customer support servers.