Domain name speculation — is the practice of identifying and registering or acquiring Internet domain names with the intent of selling them later for a profit. The main targets of domain name speculation are generic words which can be valuable for type in traffic and for… … Wikipedia
Domain name scams — are types of Intellectual property scams or confidence scams in which unscrupulous domain name registrars attempt to generate revenue by tricking businesses into buying, listing or converting a domain name. The Office of Fair Trading has outlined … Wikipedia
Domain Name System — The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the… … Wikipedia
Domain name — A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System (DNS). Domain names are used in… … Wikipedia
Domain name registrar — A domain name registrar is an organization or commercial entity, accredited by both ICANN and generic top level domain registry (gTLD) to sell gTLDs and/or by a country code top level domain (ccTLD) registry to sell ccTLDs; to manage the… … Wikipedia
Domain Name System Security Extensions — Internet protocol suite Application layer BGP DHCP DNS FTP HTTP … Wikipedia
Domain Name Service — Abbreviated DNS, sometimes referred to as Domain Naming System. A distributed addressing system that resolves the domain name into the numeric IP address. DNS lets you use the Internet without having to remember long lists of cryptic numbers.… … Dictionary of networking
Internationalized domain name — An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains one or more non ASCII characters. Such domain names could contain letters with diacritics, as required by many non English languages, or characters from non Latin… … Wikipedia
Domain appraisal — A domain name appraisal is an estimate about the potential sales price of a particular Internet domain name. A domain name appraisal is highly speculative. It is an estimate and an opinion, and can considerably vary depending upon the considered… … Wikipedia
Name — For other uses, see Name (disambiguation). Ceremonies, such as baptism, can be used to give names. A name is a word or term used for identification. Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a … Wikipedia