ICANN Terms: Difference between revisions

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The following terms are commonly used by the ICANN Community.

ICANN Fellow – A member of the Internet community and recipient of a grant provided by the ICANN Fellowship Program.
Independent Objector – a position created by ICANN to determine if a new gTLD application is in the best interest of the Internet community.
NIC – A network information center manages a registry and contracts with the registrars accredited to sell domains under a given TLD.
Registrant – A person who has registered a domain name through a registrar.
Registrar – A company that is authorized to sell domain names.
Internet Service Provider

IETF – The Internet Engineering Task Force is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet.
Whois Task Force

Applicant Guidebook – ICANN guidebook for applying for new gTLDs in the New gTLD Program
ICANN Bylaws

APTLD – the Association for ccTLD registries in the Asia Pacific region
ASIP – a non-profit organization, based in Jordan, for developing and modernizing intellectual property laws and systems in Arab countries.
ICANN
ISOC – The Internet Society
PTI –

ADR – an Alternative Dispute Resolution is a process for helping parties under dispute resolve their argument without filing any litigation.
Public Comment
RSEP – ICANN process for screening and approving proposals made by gTLD operators for new registry services.

Fellowship Program
New gTLD Program – a process by which ICANN accepts applications to add new TLDs to the Root Zone.
NextGen@ICANN

ARPANET – the first wide-area packet-switching network with distributed control to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite; the technical foundation of the Internet.

DNS – The Domain Name System translates between alphanumeric domain names and IP Addresses.
Root Zone –

Domain Name – An identification string that represents an IP resource, such as a computer, website, or service.
TLD – The Top Level Domain is the last part of a domain name
ccTLD – A Country-Code Top Level Domain is a TLD with two characters, originally designed for a particular country, sovereign state, or autonomous territory.
gTLD – A Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) refers to any TLD that is not a ccTLD.
IDN – An Internationalized Domain Names is formed using characters from different scripts, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, or Devanagari. These are encoded by the Unicode standard following IDN protocol
DNSSEC
Internet Layer
IP – Internet Protocol is the means by which data is sent from one computer to another via an Internet connection.
IP Address – the unique number given to every computer connected to the Internet. This number allows users and other computers to find each other.
Internet Protocol Suite
IPv4
IPv6

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 *[[IETF]] – The Internet Engineering Task Force is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet.