Glossary 
Glossar
- BIND
Berkley Intenet Domain Name most commonly used nameserver-software at the present.
- BPE
- Business Process Engine: a workflow system which is the main part of the DomiNIC®-System.
- ccTLD
country-code Top Level Domain two-character TLDs established for each country of the world.
- CNO
- Abbreviation for .com, .net and .org domains.
- Core
- Core is the registry where you can register and administer CNO domains.
- Denic
- The german registry where you can register and administer .de domains.
- DMW
Domain Management Web frontend component of DomiNIC4domains for registrars, ISPs, reseller etc.. - DNS
Domain Name System The Domain Name System performs the assignment of easy to remember domain names to the nasty IP-addresses, which are required by machines.
- EPP
Extensible Provisioning Protocol Ein flexibles Netzwerkprotokoll, welches das Anlegen von Objekten in den Registrierungsdatenbanken z.B. der NICs ermöglicht. - gTLD
generic Top Level Domain generic TLDs like ".com", ".net", ".org" etc.. gTLDs are divided into "sponsored" and "unsponsored" TLDs. The "sponsored" TLDs (sTLDs) are managed and financed by autonomous organisations (sponsors), whereas the "unsponsored" TLDs (uTLDs) are under control of ICANN. - GUI
Graphical User Interface - Handle
- A unique notation that is associated with further information for an object. This information can be retrieved utilising the that notation. Objects can be persons, domains, nameservers etc..
- IDN
Internationalized Domain Name these domain names can contain Non-ASCII-characters i.e. umlaute, diacritical signs or characters from non-latin languages etc.. - ISP
- Internet Service Provider
- Local Presence
- Consider a customer who wants to purchase a domain under a foreign TLD. Some countries disallow the direct purchasing of domains from outside their country. In this case you will need a depositary (a local presence) to buy the domain for you. You will then have the administrative control for that domain.
- NS
- Name Server
- PGP
Pretty Good Privacy
A program for cryptographic purposes.
- Registrant
The registrant is the person who mandates the registrar to register a certain SLD for him. Hereby the registrant is the domain-holder and gets a temporary authorisation to use this SLD in a designated scope of application.
- Registrar
- The registrar is authorised to setup and change second level domains (SLDs). Normally an order, from somebody interested to purchase the SLD, forms the basis of this process.
- Registry
- The registry is an institution who is concerned with the TLD-administration. The registry provides all the services neccessary for the registration, assignment and the operation of TLDs. According to these tasks the registry stores no data about domain-holders, they only hold data about domain name servers and the appropriate registrars.
- Release
- Publication of an extensively testet software product that has passed the quality control.
- RoI
- Return of Investment
- SLD
Second Level Domain The second level domain is the label directly to the left of the TLD. This means in "www. dominic.de" "dominic" is call the SLD. - SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol Protocol for exchange of XML-based messages in a network. - Template
- File having example character for special purposes which contains variables and can be filled in automatically.