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A Record
Active Channel
Active X
Add Ons
ADO - ActiveX Data Objects
ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop
Adware
Affiliate Program
AFILIAS
AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format
Alias
Aliased Nameservers
Alignment
Alt Tags
Anchor - HTML Anchor
Animated Gif
Anonymous FTP
Anonymous remailer
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
Anti-Virus
AOL - America Online
Apache Web Server
Applet
Archie
Archive
Archive Site
ARJ
ARPA - Advanced Research Projects Agency
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASP - Active Server Pages
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Authentication
Authoritative
Auto Responder
AVI - Audio Video Interleaved
B Channel
Backbone
Background
Backlinks
Backorder
Backups
Bandwidth
Baud
BBS - Bulletin Board System
Binary
Binary Mode
BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Domain
Binhex - BINary HEXadecimal
Bit
Bit Rate
BITNET - Because It's Time NETwork
Blockquote
Body - Body Tags
Bookmark
Bot
BRI - Basic Rate Interface
Bridge
Broadcast
Browser
Bulk Email
Burstable
C
C++
CA - Certificate Authority
Cable Modem
Cache
Canonical Name
Catch all
CDF - Channel Definition Format
CERN
Certificate
CFM
CGI - Common Gateway Interface
Cgi-bin
CHAP - Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
Chat Server
CHMOD
CIDR - Classless InterDomain Routing
Class A Subnet
Class A Subnet
Classless Subnet Delegation
CLI - Command Line Interface
Click Through
Client
Client / Server
Cloaking
Clustering
CMS - Content Management System
CNAME Record
Cold Fusion
Colocation Server Hosting
Comment Tags
Control Panel
Cookie
cPanel
CPU - Central Processing Unit
Crawler
Cronjobs
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
Custom Design
Cyber Squatting
D Channel
Data Transfer
Database
Dedicated Server
Delegation
DES - Data Encryption Standard
DHCP - Dynamic Host Control Protocol
Dhtml
Dial Up
Diesel Generator
Dig - Domain Information Groper
DirectX
Disk Space
DNS - Domain Name System
DNS Server
DNS Spoofing
Domain Locking
Domain lookup
Domain Name System
Domain Names
Domain Parking
Domain reseller
Domain Zone
dot.biz
dot.com
dot.info
dot.name
dot.net
dot.org
dot.tv
dot.us
dot.ws
Downtime
Dreamweaver
DSL - Digital Subscriber Line
Dynamic IP Address
eBusiness
eCommerce
EIA - Electronic Industries Association
Email - Electronic Mail
Email Attachment
Email form
Email forwarding
Encryption
Ensim
Ethernet
Eudora
Expire Field
Extranet
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
Fast Ethernet
FCC - Federal Communications Commission
FDDI - Fiber Distributed Data Interface
Fiber Optic Cable
File manager
Filename Extension
Filtering
Finger
Firewall
Flame
Flash
Forward Domain
Forward Zone
Forwarding
FPU - Floating Point Unit
FQDN - Fully Qualified Domain Name
Frame
Frame Relay
Frontpage
FrontPage Extensions
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
FTPmail
Fully Qualified Domain Name
Fully Qualified Host Name
Gateway
Gb - Gigabyte
Generic Top Level Domain
GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
Gigabit Ethernet
Glue Record
Golive
Graphics
Guestbook
GUI - Graphical User Interface
Hexadecimal
Hexadecimal color-notation system
Hinfo Record
Hit
Home Page
Host
Hosting
Hosting reseller
Hostmaster field
Hostname
htaccess
HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
HTTPS - Secure
Hub
Hyperlink
Hypertext
ICANN
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Iframe
IIS - Internet Information Server
Image Map
Image swap
IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol
Intellectual property
Internet
Internet backbone
Internet Explorer
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
Internet protocol
InterNIC
Intranet
IP - Internet Protocol
IP Address
IP packet
IPX - Internet Packet Exchange
IRC - Internet Relay Chat
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO - International Organisation for Standardisation
ISP - Internet Service Provider
Iterative Query
ITU - International Telecommunication Union
JAR - Java Archive
Java
Java Applet
Java class files
Java Servlet
Java Virtual Machine (JVM, Java Runtime Environment)
JavaScript
JDBC - Java Database Connectivity
jpg (.jpg)
JScript
JSP - Java Server Pages
Kbps
Kermit
Kilobyte (Kb)
Label
Lame delegation
Lame Server
LAN - Local Area Network
LAN modem
Leased line
Line provisioning
Link
Linux
Live chat
Load Balancing
LOC Record
Log file
Login
Lossless
Lossy
LZW compression
MAC - Media Access Control
MAC Address
Machine
Mail Relay
Mailing List
Mailserver
Mainframe Computer
Managed Web Hosting
Masking
Master Server
Mbps - Megabits per second
Megabyte (MB)
Memory
Merchant account
Meta tags
MHz
Microsoft Access
Microsoft FoxPro
Microsoft SQL Server
MIDI
MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
Minimum Field
Mirror Sites
Miva Empressa
Miva Merchant
Mod-rewrite
Modem
Money back guarantee
Monitoring
Mosaic
mov (.mov)
Mozilla
MP3
mpg (.mpg) or .mpeg
mSQL (Mini SQL)
Multi-sites
Multicast
MX Record
MySQL
Name Server
Negative Caching
Netiquette
Netscape
Netscape Communications
Network
Network connectivity
Network Management
Newsgroup
Newsreader
NIC - Network Interface Card
NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol
NOC - Network Operations Center
Node
Nominet
Non virtual domain
NS Record
NSI (Network Solutions Inc.)
NSlookup
NT
OC - Optical Carrier
Octet
ODBC - Open Database Connectivity
Offline
Online
Open Source
Optimization
Origin
OS - Operating System
OSI - Open System Interconnection
Outlook & Outlook Express
Owner
P2P - Peer to Peer
Packet Switching
Page
Page views
Paid inclusion
PAP - Password Authentication Protocol
Parked page
Password protected
Pay per click
Pay per lead
Payment gateway
Peer-to-Peer network
Perl
Phishing scams
PHP - Hypertext Preprocessor
phpMyAdmin
phpneo
phpnuke
Ping
PKZIP or PKUNZIP
Platform
Plesk
Plone
Plug-in
POP - Post Office Protocol
Pop-under
Pop-up
Port
postgreSQL
Power backup
PPP - Point to Point Protocol
PRI - Primary Rate Interface
Primary field
Primary Server
Privacy policy
Private FTP access
Private registration
Propagation
Protocol
Proxy
PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network
PTR Record
Putty
Python
Query
Quicktime
Rack server
RAID
RAM - Random Access Memory
Ranking
Raw access
Raw Logs
RDBMS - Relational Data Base Management Systems
Real audio
Record
Record Class
Recursive Query
Redemption period
Redirect
Redundant
Referrers
Refresh Field
Registrar
Registration
Registry
Relational Database
Renewal
Reseller
Reseller Web Hosting
Resolution
Resolver
Resource Record
Retry Field
Reverse Domain
Reverse Record
Reverse Zone
RJ-11
RJ-45
Rollovers
Root Server
Root Zone
Round Robin Load Sharing
Router
RP Record
RSA
S/MIME
Scripting Language
SCSI Drives - Small Computer System Interface
Search engine
Search form
Search Indexer
Second Level Domain
Secondary Server
Secure Web Site
Self Extracting Archive
SEO - Search Engine Optimization
Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP)
Serial Number Field
Server
Service Provider
Session
Setup fee
Shared Registration System
Shared Server
Shared Web Hosting
Shell Account
Shockwave
Shopping cart
SHTTP - Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Signature
Signed Applet
SLA - Service Level Agreement
Slave Server
SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMDS - Switched Multimegabit Data Service
Smileys
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Sniffer
SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
SOA - Service Oriented Architecture
Spam
Spam filter
Spider
SPX - Sequenced Packet Exchange
Spyware
SQL - Standard Query Language
SQL- Structured Query Language
SRV Record
SSH - Secure Shell
SSI - Server Side Includes
SSL - Secure Sockets Layer
SSL certificate
Static (or dedicated) IP
Static IP address
Statistics
Sticky (content)
STP - Shielded Twisted Pair
Streaming
Style sheets
Subdomain
Submission
Subnet
Support
surfing
Swish files (.swf)
Switch
T1 Connection
T3
Tape back-up
Tcl - Tool command language
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
Technical Support
Telnet
Terabyte
Terminal Server
Terms of Use
Third Level Domain
TIA - Telecommunications Industry Association
Title Tags
TLD - Top Level Domain
Traceroute
Traffic
Tree
Trouble Ticket
TTL - Time To Live
Twisted Pair
TXT Record
Unicode
Unique Visitor
UNIX
Unqualified Domain Name
UPS - Uninterruptible Power Supply
Uptime
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
Usenet
UTP - Unshielded Twisted Pair
UUencode
VB Script
viewer
Virtual server
Virtualization
Virus
VPN - Virtual Private Network
VPS - Virtual Private Server
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
WAN - Wide Area Network
WAV Files
Web Address
Web Designer
Web Hosting
Web Site Builder
Web Space
Web Template
Webalizer
Webmail
Webmaster
WHOIS
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Wildcard
WIPO - World Intellectual Property Organization
WKS Record
WML - Wireless Markup Language
WWW - World Wide Web
WYSIWYG - What you see is what you get
XML - Extensible Markup Language
XML processor
XMODEM
YMODEM
zip (.zip)
ZMODEM
Zone
Zone Files
Zone Transfer
Zope

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