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Stealth Acquisition

Purchasing a domain without revealing the true buyer's identity, often through a broker or shell company. Large companies use stealth acquisitions to avoid price inflation when sellers know who's buying.

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Propagation

The process by which DNS changes spread across the global network of DNS servers.

CNAME

Canonical Name Record - a DNS record type that maps an alias domain name to the true (canonical) domain name.

GDPR

GDPR is an acronym that stands for General Data Protection Regulation. This is a law enforced by the European Union since May 2018, aimed at giving EU citizens control over their personal data and ...

Generic Domain

A "generic domain" (also known as a generic top-level domain - gTLD) refers to a domain name that uses a common, general term as its second-level domain. They're called "generic" because they d...

Hijacking

Domain hijacking refers to an illicit activity where an individual or entity illegitimately takes control of a domain name without the consent of its rightful owner. This is usually done by exploit...

IDNA

Internationalized Domain Names in Applications