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Trustee Service

A service that holds domains on behalf of registrants who don't meet local presence requirements for certain ccTLDs. Trustees provide a local address while allowing foreign ownership.

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Redemption Period

A period after the grace period when an expired domain can still be recovered, but at a significantly higher fee.

CNAME

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

Type-in traffic is a term you'll encounter often. It refers to the visitors a website receives directly from users typing the URL into their browser's address bar, rather than arriving through a se...

Reg Fee

Short for 'registration fee' - the cost to register a domain name for one year.

Registrar

Domain name registration company