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Glossary of terms commonly used by the ICANN Community
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The following terms are commonly used in the ICANN Community.  
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==Actors/Roles==
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*[[NIC]] – A network information center manages a registry and contracts with the registrars accredited to sell domains under a given TLD.
 
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*[[Registrant]] – A person who has registered a domain name through a registrar.
 
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*[[Registrar]] – A company that is authorized to sell domain names.
 
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==Communities of Practice==
 
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*[[CCT]]
 
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*[[GA]]
 
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*[[GCOT]]
 
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*[[ICANN Studienkreis]]
 
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*[[IESG]]
 
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*[[IRT]]
 
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*[[JIG]]
 
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*[[MAG]]
 
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*[[RSTEP]]
 
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*[[TDG]]
 
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*[[TLG]]
 
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===Working Groups/Work Parties===
 
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*[[FFWG]]
 
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*[[IDN WG]]
 
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*[[PDP-WT]]
 
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*[[PEDNR WG]]
 
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*[[RAP WG]]
 
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*[[VIWG]]
 
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*[[WGIG]]
 
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===Task Forces===
 
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*[[IETF]] – The Internet Engineering Task Force is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet.
 
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*[[Whois Task Force]]
 
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===Draft Teams===
 
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*[[STI-DT]]
 
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===Committees===
 
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*[[BGC]]
 
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*[[CEO Search Committee]]
 
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*[[OSC]]
 
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*[[PPSC]]
 
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*[[SIC]]
 
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*[[TMC]]
 
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==Databases==
 
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*[[Registry]] – a database of all domain names registered under a certain TLD.
 
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==Documents==
 
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==Organizations==
 
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*[[ICANN]]
 
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*[[ISOC]] – The Internet Society
 
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==Processes==
 
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*[[Public Comment]]
 
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===Programs===
 
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*[[Fellowship Program]]
 
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*[[New gTLD Program]] – a process by which ICANN accepts applications to add new TLDs to the Root Zone.
 
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*[[NextGen@ICANN]]
 
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==Internet Architecture==
 
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===Domain Name System===
 
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*[[DNS]] – The Domain Name System translates between alphanumeric domain names and IP Addresses.
 
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*[[Root Zone]] –
 
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===Protocols===
 
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====Domain Name====
 
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*[[Domain Name]] – An identification string that represents an IP resource, such as a computer, website, or service.
 
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*[[TLD]] – A '''Top Level Domain (TLD)''' is the last part of a domain name
 
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*[[ccTLD]] – A Country-Code Top Level Domain is a TLD with two characters, originally designed for a particular country, sovereign state, or autonomous territory.
 
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*[[gTLD]] – A '''Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD)''' refers to any TLD that is not a ccTLD.
 
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*[[IDN]] – An Internationalized Domain Names is formed using characters from different scripts, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, or Devanagari. These are encoded by the Unicode standard following IDN protocol
 
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*[[DNSSEC]]
 
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*[[IP]] – Internet Protocol is the means by which data is sent from one computer to another via an Internet connection.
 
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*[[Internet Protocol Suite]]
 
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*[[IPv4]]
 
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*[[IPv6]]
 

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