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Redirect

Automatically sending visitors from one URL to another. Redirects are used to consolidate domains, preserve SEO value when changing URLs, or forward parked domains to active sites.

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Chips (Chip Domains)

Four-letter .com domains with no vowels and no V, prized by Chinese buyers during the 2015 boom and still traded as a class.

Punycode

ASCII representation of Unicode domain names

Registry Lock

A paid, registry-level lock that blocks transfers, deletions and updates until a manual, out-of-band verification is completed.

Sedo

The German domain marketplace and parking company, one of the two big aftermarket venues alongside Afternic.

MX Record

Mail Exchange Record - a DNS record that specifies the mail server responsible for receiving email on behalf of a domain.

Make an Offer refers to the process where a potential buyer proposes a price they are willing to pay for a specific domain name. This is typically done when the domain name is listed for sale but w...