7 terms
A ccTLD is a country code top-level domain such as .de or .jp, a two-letter domain name ending reserved for a country or territory.
A domain name is a unique, human-readable identifier in the Internet's DNS hierarchy, registered for a fixed term and used to address websites and email.
A gTLD (generic top-level domain) is a domain name ending such as .com, .org or .shop that is operated under ICANN contracts rather than tied to…
A registrar is an accredited company that registers domain names with TLD registries on behalf of customers and manages their renewals and transfers.
A registry is the organization that operates a top-level domain, keeping its authoritative database of domain names and publishing the TLD zone in DNS.
A TLD, or top-level domain, is the last label of a domain name, such as .com or .de, delegated directly from the DNS root zone.
WHOIS is the query protocol and directory service that returns registration data for domain names, such as registrar, dates, status and nameservers.