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- Daemonsearch for term
- Is a relentless process that responds to requests as they arrive without any human assistance. Server
processes, such as those
for HTTP and FTP, run as daemons. - Data Transfersearch for term
- Generally speaking is any outward/inward-bound traffic from a web site (Including for email) is considered to be data transfer. Each instance
a web page, image, FLASH file, etc. is loaded, data transfer is generated.
- DNSsearch for term
- The Internet was built on the notion that any computer on a global network can be identified by its numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address. But since people, and not machines, are the primary
users of the Internet, a more people-friendly naming system called the Domain Name System (DNS) was invented. DNS maps a host name like www.hostitcheap.com to the IP address of the machine that hosts the Host It Cheap web site.
DNS is built upon the notion that some server's are "authoritative" (meaning, knows all there is to know) for certain domains. A distributed name server hierarchy, beginning with the root server and ending at the thousands of nameservers active on the Internet, ensures that the naming and directing system works the same from anywhere.
- Domain Namesearch for term
- A domain name is essentially a signpost on the Internet. Almost every website you've ever been to, and every email you've ever composed, has used a domain name in its address. People register domain names in order to 'stake a claim' to a particular name -- whether for business or personal reasons.
Once a domain name is registered to a person or company, it is that person's to use exclusively as long as they continue to pay the yearly renewal fee and abide by the terms of use.
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Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD)
gTLDs are top level domains that are not associated with
any country. Currently, the only gTLDs in existence are .com, .net and .org. Originally, the top level domain designation was meant to denote whether the domain name was being used for business (.com), charity/non-profit (.org), or for a network (.net). However, with the explosion of the Internet (and specifically, the world wide web) as a new business medium, the lines were blurred, and companies and individuals alike started cross-registering domains (i.e.. me.com, me.net, me.org) just to protect their interests. Now, .com, .net, and .org names (the generic Top Level Domains) can be used for any purpose.
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Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD)
Every country (and a few territories) in the world has a reserved, two letter country code domain that is theirs to use as they see fit. Some countries run their own ccTLD registry, others outsource it to a private company, and still others sell rights to their ccTLD to third parties to run as
they see fit. Examples of ccTLDs are .ca (Canada), .us (United States), and .to (Tonga). In general, these are registered by businesses with a coincidental link to the TLD in question. For example: .to is used more by Torontonians than Tongans and .tv has more American television content than native Tuvalu culture.
- Domain Name Systemsearch for term
- The Internet was built on the notion that any computer on a global network can be identified by its numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address. But since people, and not machines, are the primary
users of the Internet, a more people-friendly naming system called the Domain Name System (DNS) was invented. DNS maps a host name like www.hostitcheap.com to the IP address of the machine that hosts the Host It Cheap web site.
DNS is built upon the notion that some server's are "authoritative" (meaning, knows all there is to know) for certain domains. A distributed name server hierarchy, beginning with the root server and ending at the thousands of nameservers active on the Internet, ensures that the naming and directing system works the same from anywhere.
- Domain Registrantsearch for term
- A registrant is the person or company who registers a domain name. For example, Joe Moses (registrant) registers the name joemoses.com through a registrar who in turn writes the name to the central database or registry.
- Domain Registrarsearch for term
- A "Registrar" (or "Domain Name Registrar") is an organization like HazleNet that has control over the granting of domains within certain TLD's (top level domains, like the generic .com/.org/.net or country-specific. ca/.us/.mx etc.).
- Domain Registrysearch for term
- The 'Registry' is the system backend that is maintained by the operators of the TLD. Registrar's write new names to a central registry database, from which the authoritative root (essentially, a table of all domain names) is built. In the case of .com, .net and .org, the InterNIC runs the registry, and qualified registrars have shared access to it. In the case of many ccTLDs, the registry and registrar functions are combined within one entity.
- Domain Renewalsearch for term
- gTLDs:
Domains are leased on an annual basis, and need to be renewed once the current payment for the lease expires. If a domain is registered on April 15, 2000 and prepaid for one year, it will be due for renewal on April 15, 2001, at which point the registrant either pays for additional years, or lets the name expire. Domains can also be pre-paid for multiple years, up to a maximum of 10 years.
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ccTLDs:
The *.uk registry, Nominet, has set registration and renewal periods for all .uk names at two years.
- Domain Transfersearch for term
- The term 'transfer' has been used to describe various kinds of domain name transfers. Traditionally, simply changing the nameservers providing name service for a domain was considered a transfer. Nowadays, such a modification is more rightly called a modification, and the term 'transfer' describes the transfer of a domain from one registrar to another.
- Downloadsearch for term
- The process of copying data such as pictures, sound files, and text documents from the Internet onto your computer.
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