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Domain and Hosting Encyclopedia

Use our encyclopedia to get up to speed with terms relating to domain registration, maintenance, and web hosting.

Starting Points

Some good starting points to learn more about domain names would include the Domain Name System, Domain Name Registry, IP Address and Root Nameserver entries.

Terms

• ARIN
• ASCII
• Anycast
• BIND
• Backlinks
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Computer Network
• Cybersquatting
• DHCP
• DNS
• Denial-Of-Service Attack
• Domain Name System
• Domain Hijacking
• Domain Name Registry
• Dynamic DNS
• Electronic Mail
• Email
• Ethernet
• File Transfer Protocol
• Google
• HTML
• HTTP
• Host File
• Host Name
• Hyperlink
• IANA
• ICANN
• IMAP
• IP Address
• IPv6
• ISP
• Incoming Link
• Information Sciences Institute
• Internet
• Internet Protocol
• Internet Relay Chat
• Internet Software Consortium
• Internet Control Message Protocol
• Internet Protocol Suite
• Internet Service Provider
• Keyword
• Link Popularity
• List Of Mail Servers
• Load Balancing
• Local Area Network
• LookSmart
• Mail Client
• Mail Server
• Meta Tag
• Metropolitan Area Network
• Name Server
• NetBIOS
• Nominet UK
• Open Directory Project
• POP3
• PageRank
• Personal Area Network
• Portal
• Public Interest Registry
• RIPE
• Reciprocal Link
• Request For Comments
• Reverse DNS Lookup
• Root Nameserver
• Routing
• SSH
• Search Engine
• Search Engine Optimization
• Server Message Block
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• Site Finder
• Spamdexing
• Spamming
• Telnet
• Time To Live
• UDRP
• Uniform Resource Locator
• User Datagram Protocol
• VeriSign
• Virtual Hosting
• WWW
• Web Browser
• Web Crawler
• Web Designer
• Web Directories
• Web Hosting
• Web Page
• Webmaster
• Website
• Whois
• Wide Area Network
• Wildcard DNS Record
• World Wide Web
• World Wide Web Consortium
• XHTML
• XML
• Yahoo!
• Zeal