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==Organizations==
==Organizations==
*[[APTLD]] – the Association for ccTLD registries in the Asia Pacific region
*[[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]]
*[[ICANN]]
*[[ISOC]] – The Internet Society
*[[ISOC]] – The Internet Society

Revision as of 17:41, 11 February 2021

The following terms are commonly used by the ICANN Community.

Actors/Roles[edit | edit source]

  • 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

Communities of Practice[edit | edit source]

Working Groups/Work Parties[edit | edit source]

Task Forces[edit | edit source]

  • 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

Draft Teams[edit | edit source]

Committees[edit | edit source]

Databases[edit | edit source]

  • Registry – a database of all domain names registered under a certain TLD.

Documents[edit | edit source]

Organizations[edit | edit source]

  • 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

Processes[edit | edit source]

  • 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.

Functions[edit | edit source]

Programs[edit | edit source]

Internet Architecture[edit | edit source]

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

Domain Name System[edit | edit source]

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

Protocols[edit | edit source]

Domain Name[edit | edit source]

  • 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