Glossary of terms commonly used by the ICANN Community
Actors/Roles
- 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.
Communities of Practice
Working Groups/Work Parties
Task Forces
- 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
Committees
Databases
- Registry – a database of all domain names registered under a certain TLD.
Documents
Organizations
Processes
Programs
- Fellowship Program
- New gTLD Program – a process by which ICANN accepts applications to add new TLDs to the Root Zone.
- NextGen@ICANN
Internet Architecture
Domain Name System
- DNS – The Domain Name System translates between alphanumeric domain names and IP Addresses.
- Root Zone –
Protocols
Domain Name
- 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
- 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
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Pages in category "Glossary"
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- Data Escrow
- Delegation
- Digital Archery
- Direct Navigation
- DNS Stability Panel
- Translations:DNSO/13/en
- Domain Monetization
- Domain Name
- Domain Name Resolvers
- Domain Name Supporting Organization
- Domain Name System Security Extensions
- Domain Tasting
- Domaining
- Draft Applicant Guidebook
- Drafting Team
- Drop-Catching
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- I* Leaders
- IANA Functions Stewardship Transition
- ICANN Bylaws
- ICANN Fellow
- ICANN Meetings
- ICANN Reviews
- IDN email
- IDN WG
- Independent Objector
- Intellectual Property
- Internationalized Domain Name
- Internet
- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
- Internet Layer
- Internet Protocol
- Internet Service Provider
- Internet Standards Process
- IP
- IP Address
- IPOC
- IPv4
- IPv6
- IRIS
- Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy
- ISPA
- ISPAI
- IXP