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Naming and name resolution have fundamental roles in the current and future Internet architectures. In the contemporary Internet, many limitations and problems on this area are longtime well-known, including the limited number of namespaces, the overloaded semantics of IP addresses and domain names, the use of network layer names at higher-levels of the architecture, and the limited name resolution capabilities of DNS. More recently, information-centric networking (ICN) and ID/Locator splitting have emerged as important approaches for rethinking the role of naming on the Internet. In addition, flat name schemes and innovative name resolution service (NRS) are being proposed to improve content distribution efficiency and provenance. In this paper, we are proposing a novel, hierarchical, distributed, name resolution and network caching service to support any combination of flat or hierarchical, natural …