The term the Internet of things (IoT) is becoming an increasingly growing topic of conversation both in workplace and outside of it. IoT is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals, or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human-to-computer interaction. Here we need to know how the devices or things in IoT are communicating and how the name service will translate the meaningful names to a machine-understandable form. Name services means to translate humanunderstandable names into network identifiers that can be used for communications in the computer networks. Mainly we are using Internet Protocol (IP) address for the communication of hosts over the network. But it will be very difficult for humans to memorize the IP address, which is a 32-bit number and type it in the URL field to access the web pages. This difficulty raised the need of using memorable words (for example, www.google.com) to access the web pages. Li et al. introduced a naming, addressing, and profile (NAPS) server for the naming and addressing in IoT. © 2018 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.