(thing) by hostmaster Fri Mar 29 2002 at 18:56:38

e-mail address used by network administrators to register with Internic.

Most well managed domains on the Internet will have role-based e-mail addresses defined to handle problems with e-mail (postmaster) and the Domain Name System (hostmaster).

The name likely stuck because hostnames were originally mapped to IP addresses using the file /etc/hosts. An alternative explanation: a hostmaster administers hosts.

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