• ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution): Out-of-court procedure for settling domain name disputes in the EU.
• ccTLD (country-code Top-Level Domain): top-level domain corresponding to a territory or country.
• CENTR: Council of European National Top-level domain Registries.
• DNS (Domain Name Server): machines on which domain name information is installed.
• EMD is the acronym for Exact Match Domain.
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• EPP (Extensible Provision Protocol) is a standard for communication via XML messages between registrars and the registry. It is implemented by means of an API linking the registrar interface to the registry.
• EURID (European Registry of Internet Domain Names): Registry which manages the .EU extension.
• gTLD (generic TopLevel Domain): generic top-level extension .
• ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers): Internet Regulatory Authority.
• Legacy gTLD: generic extension created before 2014, as opposed to nTLDs.
• nTLD (new Top-Level Domain): generic extension created after 2014.
• OHIM (Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market): European Union agency responsible for registering trade marks and designs.
• Quasi-generic extensions, or Quasi-generic ccTLD: country-code TLDs used like generic TLDs, without geographic restrictions
• WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization): Specialized agency of the United Nations allowing the registration of international trademarks.
• Penny TLD: extension free of charge or sold at a very low price.
• Registry: Organisation responsible for managing one or more domain name extensions.
Regional Internet Registry: A RIR (Regional Internet Registry) oversees the allocation and registration of Internet number resources (IPv4 addresses, IPv6 addresses and autonomous system numbers) in a specific region.
• TLD (Top-Level Domain): first level domain name extension.
• UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy): Out-of-court procedure for settling disputes over generic domain names.