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| − | Glossary of terms commonly used by the ICANN Community
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| − | ==Actors/Roles==
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| − | *[[NIC]] – A network information center manages a registry and contracts with the registrars accredited to sell domains under a given TLD.
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| − | *[[Registrant]] – A person who has registered a domain name through a registrar.
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| − | *[[Registrar]] – A company that is authorized to sell domain names.
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| − | ==Communities of Practice==
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| − | *[[CCT]]
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| − | *[[GA]]
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| − | *[[GCOT]]
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| − | *[[ICANN Studienkreis]]
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| − | *[[IESG]]
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| − | *[[IRT]]
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| − | *[[JIG]]
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| − | *[[MAG]]
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| − | *[[RSTEP]]
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| − | *[[TDG]]
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| − | *[[TLG]]
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| − | ===Working Groups/Work Parties===
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| − | *[[FFWG]]
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| − | *[[IDN WG]]
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| − | *[[PDP-WT]]
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| − | *[[PEDNR WG]]
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| − | *[[RAP WG]]
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| − | *[[VIWG]]
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| − | *[[WGIG]]
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| − | ===Task Forces===
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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.
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| − | *[[Whois Task Force]]
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| − | ===Draft Teams===
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| − | *[[STI-DT]]
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| − | ===Committees===
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| − | *[[BGC]]
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| − | *[[CEO Search Committee]]
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| − | *[[OSC]]
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| − | *[[PPSC]]
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| − | *[[SIC]]
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| − | *[[TMC]]
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| − | ==Databases==
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| − | *[[Registry]] – a database of all domain names registered under a certain TLD.
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| − | ==Documents==
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| − | ==Organizations==
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| − | *[[ICANN]]
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| − | *[[ISOC]] – The Internet Society
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| − | ==Processes==
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| − | *[[Public Comment]]
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| − | ===Programs===
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| − | *[[Fellowship Program]]
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| − | *[[New gTLD Program]] – a process by which ICANN accepts applications to add new TLDs to the Root Zone.
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| − | *[[NextGen@ICANN]]
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| − | ==Internet Architecture==
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| − | ===Domain Name System===
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| − | *[[DNS]] – The Domain Name System translates between alphanumeric domain names and IP Addresses.
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| − | *[[Root Zone]] –
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| − | ===Protocols===
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| − | ====Domain Name====
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| − | *[[Domain Name]] – An identification string that represents an IP resource, such as a computer, website, or service.
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| − | *[[TLD]] – A '''Top Level Domain (TLD)''' is the last part of a domain name
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| − | *[[ccTLD]] – A Country-Code Top Level Domain is a TLD with two characters, originally designed for a particular country, sovereign state, or autonomous territory.
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| − | *[[gTLD]] – A '''Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD)''' refers to any TLD that is not a ccTLD.
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| − | *[[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
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| − | *[[DNSSEC]]
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| − | *[[IP]] – Internet Protocol is the means by which data is sent from one computer to another via an Internet connection.
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| − | *[[Internet Protocol Suite]]
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| − | *[[IPv4]]
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| − | *[[IPv6]]
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