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Domain Glossary

Learn the lingo associated with the domain name industry. This comprehensive Domain Glossary comprises the most common (and less common) domain terms and their definitions.

  



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400 Bad Request Error
401 Unauthorized Error
403 Forbidden Error
404 Page Not Found Error
500 Internal Server Error
501 Method Not Implemented Error
503 Service Unavailable Error

a

ACPA (Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act)
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
Ad Server
ASP (Application Service Provider)
Administrative Contact
Authentication
AdSense
Auto-Responders
Adwords
Avatar
Affiliate Link
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate networks
Affiliate Sites
AGP (Add Grace Period)
AREC (A-Record)

b

Back-links
Back-Order
Backbone
Bandwidth
Billing Contact
Black-Hat SEO
Black-Listed
Blogs
Browser

c

Cache
Case-Sensitive
ccSLD (Country Code Second Level Domain)
ccTLD (Country Code Top Level Domain)
Cease and Desist Letters
Click-Through
CMS (Content Management Systems)
CNAME (Canonical Name Record)
Control Panels
Cookies
CTR (Click-Through-Rate)
Cybersquatting

d

Domain Hijacking
Data Transfer
Databases
Direct Traffic
Disk Space
Disk Transfer
DNS (Domain Name System)
Domain Name
Domainer
Domain Name Affiliate
Download
Domain Name Aftermarket
Drop Catching
Domain Name Registrant
Drop Lists
Domain Name Registrar
Dropped Domain
Domain Name Registration
Dynamic Content
Domain Auctions
Domain Name Registry
Dynamic IP Address
Domain Broker
Domain Name Reseller
Domain Extension
Domain Parking
Domain Parking Companies
Domain Kiting
Domain Tasting

e

Ecommerce
Email
Email Address
Email Forwarding
EPC (Earnings-Per-Click)
Escrow Services
Expired Domain

f

Forum
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

g

gTLD (Generic Top Level Domain)

h

Hits
Home Page
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
HTML Editor
HTTP (Hyper-Text Protocol)
Hyperlinks

i

IANA
ICANN
IDN (Internationalized Domain Names)
IP Address

l

Landing Page
Link Farm
Long-Tail Domain Names

m

Mail Server
MX Record

n

New TLDs
Newbie
Name-Server (or Nameserver)
Nameprep

o

Overture Tool

p

PPA (Pay-Per-Action)
PPC (Pay-Per-Click)
Punycode

r

Reverse Domain Hijacking
Registrant
Reciprocal Links
Redemption Period
RFC
Round Robin DNS
RPC (Revenue-Per-Click)
RPM (Revenue-Per-Thousand)

s

Search Engine (SE)
SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
SLD (Second-Level-Domain)
Social Bookmarks
Social Networks
Spam
Split-Testing
Static Content or Page
Static IP Address
sTLD (Sponsored Top-Level Domains)
Sub-Domain

t

Technical Contact
Text Editor
TLD (Top-Level-Domain)
Trademark Infringement
Type-In Traffic
Typo-Squatting

u

UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy)
Unicode
Unique-Visitors
Upload
URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
USPTO
uTLD (Unsponsored Top-Level Domain)

w

Web Hosts
Web Server
Web Site Redirect
Web Site Statistics Programs
Web Traffic
Whois Privacy
Whois Record
Whois Server
WWW (World Wide Web)
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)

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