The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed name service that provides a naming system for computers, services, and other resources...

the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System (DNS). Any name registered in the DNS is a domain name. Domain names are organized in subordinate levels...

The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is a suite of extension specifications by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for securing data...

A Domain Name System blocklist, Domain Name System-based blackhole list, Domain Name System blacklist (DNSBL) or real-time blackhole list (RBL) is a service...

domain name registry is a database of all domain names and the associated registrant information in the top level domains of the Domain Name System (DNS)...

A domain name registrar is a company, person, or office that manages the reservation of Internet domain names. A domain name registrar must be accredited...

These writing systems are encoded by computers in multibyte Unicode. Internationalized domain names are stored in the Domain Name System (DNS) as ASCII...

Internet name servers implement the Domain Name System. The top hierarchy of the Domain Name System is served by the root name servers maintained by delegation...

of the Domain Name System (DNS). It specifies all domain levels, including the top-level domain and the root zone. A fully qualified domain name is distinguished...

top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. The top-level...

The three-domain system is a taxonomic classification system that groups all cellular life into three domains, namely Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya, introduced...

Domain name speculation, popular as domain investing, domain flipping or domaining in professional jargon, is the practice of identifying and registering...

The domain com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. Created in the first group of Internet domains at the beginning...

Name (CNAME) record is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) that maps one domain name (an alias) to another (the canonical name)...

Internet top-level domains (TLD) contains top-level domains, which are those domains in the DNS root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet. A...

Single-letter second-level domains are domains in which the second-level domain of the domain name consists of only one letter, such as x.com. In 1993...

A special-use domain name is a domain name that is defined and reserved in the hierarchy of the Domain Name System of the Internet for special purposes...

The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) is a process established by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for...

Domain parking is the registration of an Internet domain name without that domain being associated with any services such as e-mail or a website. This...

said to be a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Hostnames that include DNS domains are often stored in the Domain Name System together with the IP addresses...

(IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet. A top-level domain is the last level of every fully qualified domain name. They are called generic...

a domain name system for Chinese characters. Internationalized domain names Punycode Official web site Information on Registering a Chinese Domain Website...

The domain names example.com, example.net, example.org, and example.edu are second-level domain names in the Domain Name System of the Internet. They...

to secure a domain name by making cybersquatting claims against a domain name’s "cybersquatter" owner. This often intimidates domain name owners into...

In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a second-level domain (SLD or 2LD) is a domain that is directly below a top-level domain (TLD). For example...

the local domain name is configured by Domain Name (DHCPv4 option number 15). The Windows operating system, however, understands the Domain Search Option...

Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting) is the practice of registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name, with a bad faith intent to...

service and Domain Name System (Windows DNS or BIND) may also be included on the same server or on another domain-joined server. Domain controllers are...

using a domain name; domains which need to be accessible from the public Internet can be assigned a globally unique name within the Domain Name System (DNS)...

by abuse of privileges on domain hosting and registrar software systems. This can be devastating to the original domain name holder, not only financially...