ICANN Terms
Appearance
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]
Documents[edit | edit source]
Organizations[edit | edit source]
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
Functions[edit | edit source]
- IANA –
Programs[edit | edit source]
- Fellowship Program
- New gTLD Program – a process by which ICANN accepts applications to add new TLDs to the Root Zone.
- NextGen@ICANN
Internet Architecture[edit | edit source]
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 – A Top Level Domain (TLD) 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.
- Internet Protocol Suite
- IPv4
- IPv6