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Every website has a numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address. That is actually how they are identified.
The DNS or Domain Name Server cross references the domain name to the IP address and directs you to the site. If the name is not in the DNS table then looking for a website by name will return an error. And the only way to find the site is with the IP address.