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Glossary
URL
Universal Resource Locator, an address used
to locate world wide web sites on the Internet (e.g.,
http://www.nsiregistry.net)
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White Paper
A Statement of Policy for the Management of
Internet Names and Addresses released by the U.S. Department
of Commerce in June 1998 in response to comments received
to the Green Paper recommendations published in January
1998. Among other things, the White Paper called for
the creation of a global, not-for-profit organization
that would eventually assume the responsibility for
coordinating four key functions for the Internet: the
management of the domain name system, the allocation
of IP address space, the assignment of protocol parameters,
and the management of the root server system.
(See: http://www.nsiregistry.net/history/whiteppr.html)
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Whois
A searchable database maintained by registries
and registrars that contains information about domain
name registrations in the com, net, org, edu, and ISO
3166 country code top-level domains. Also, the protocol,
or set of rules, that describes the application used
to access the database.
(See Registrar Whois and
Registry
Whois.)
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Whois Server
The URL (web address) where the Whois service
for a particular registry or registrar may be found.
This is one of the items of information provided by
the VeriSign
Global Registry Whois.
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Working Groups
Working Groups are bodies of Domain Name Supporting Organization General Assembly members that are established by the DNSO Names
Council to carry out its consensus building responsibility. Each recognized DNSO
Constituency may participate in any working group.
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Zone File Access Agreement
An agreement with VeriSign Global Registry
Services that must
be executed by parties requesting access to the
VeriSign Global Registry TLD zone files. (See:http://www.verisign-grs.com/Tld/)
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Zone Files
Files that contain data describing a portion
of the domain name space for specific top level domains.
Zone files contain the information needed to resolve
domain names to Internet Protocol (IP) numbers. Zone
files contain domain names, their associated name server
names and the IP addresses for those name servers.
VeriSign Global Registry Services updates zone files for the .com, .net and
.org TLDs two times per day.
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