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| *[[EPP]] – Extensible Provisioning Protocol is an XML-based protocol used by registrars and registries in managing domain names (register, renew, modify, delete, transfer) in a Shared Registry System environment. | | *[[EPP]] – Extensible Provisioning Protocol is an XML-based protocol used by registrars and registries in managing domain names (register, renew, modify, delete, transfer) in a Shared Registry System environment. |
| *[[HTTP]] – Hypertext Transfer Protocol is a standard networking protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia systems used on the World Wide Web since 1990. | | *[[HTTP]] – Hypertext Transfer Protocol is a standard networking protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia systems used on the World Wide Web since 1990. |
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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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− | *[[DNSSEC]] – extensions that enable communication authentication between hosts and DNS data, while ensuring data integrity.
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− | *[[Generic String]] – a string consisting of a word or term that denominates or describes a general class of goods, services, groups, organizations, or things, as opposed to distinguishing a specific brand of goods, services, groups, organizations or things from those of others.
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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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| *[[Internet Layer]] | | *[[Internet Layer]] |
| *[[IP]] – Internet Protocol is the means by which data is sent from one computer to another via an Internet connection. | | *[[IP]] – Internet Protocol is the means by which data is sent from one computer to another via an Internet connection. |
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| *[[IPv4]] the version of internet protocol that defines IP addresses in a 32-bit format; the last blocks of IPv4 addresses were allocated by IANA to the Regional Internet Registries in February 2011. | | *[[IPv4]] the version of internet protocol that defines IP addresses in a 32-bit format; the last blocks of IPv4 addresses were allocated by IANA to the Regional Internet Registries in February 2011. |
| *[[IPv6]] the version of Internet protocol that supports 128-bit IP addresses. | | *[[IPv6]] the version of Internet protocol that supports 128-bit IP addresses. |
| + | *[[IRIS]] Internet Registry Information Service, developed to replace WHOIS, is an application layer client-server protocol for a framework to represent the query and result operations of the information services of Internet registries. |
| + | *[[WHOIS]] is a query and response protocol for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system. |
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| + | ====Domain Name==== |
| + | *[[Domain Name]] – An identification string that represents an IP resource, such as a computer, website, or service. |
| + | *[[DNSSEC]] – extensions that enable communication authentication between hosts and DNS data, while ensuring data integrity. |
| + | *[[Generic String]] – a string consisting of a word or term that denominates or describes a general class of goods, services, groups, organizations, or things, as opposed to distinguishing a specific brand of goods, services, groups, organizations or things from those of others. |
| + | *[[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. |
| *[[TLD]] – The Top Level Domain is the last part of a domain name; see the main article for more info on types of TLDs. | | *[[TLD]] – The Top Level Domain is the last part of a domain name; see the main article for more info on types of TLDs. |
− | *[[WHOIS]] is a query and response protocol for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system.
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