sihosting.org.ua Glossary of Terms

A Record
Short for address record, it maps a domain name or hostname to an IP address. You would set an A record if you wanted all traffic for a domain or hostname (shoes.domain.com) to go to a specific machine, which is identified by an IP address.

Catch-All Address
With this feature selected, any email that is sent to your domain name is forwarded to an "@yourdomain.com" email address. This allows you to have email addresses for yourself, departments (sales@yourcompany.com), promotions and other needs all forwarded to one mailbox. It also ensures that misspelled email addresses (salse@yourcompany.com) still reach you.

Please realize that this is only email forwarding. If you try to reply to a message, the address shown in "reply from" will be the address for your Yahoo! Mail account (e.g. you@yahoo.com). For full-featured domain mail, which enables you to reply using your new domain name address, you'll need to upgrade to Custom Mailbox.

CNAME Record
A CNAME record maps a hostname to another hostname. For example, you could set up store.widget-designs.com to map to store.wd.com. This means that users will always end up at store.wd.com no matter which hostname they enter in the browser.

DNS Management
DNS stands for Domain Name System. It is an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses, which is how the Internet identifies unique hosts or computers on the network. For example, the domain name www.widget-designs.com might translate to 198.105.232.4.

DNS files control the functionality of domain names and are made of records including MX, A, and CNAME. Information in these records helps to direct your personal computer to a specific web site and helps deliver email messages to the correct mail server.

Domain Extensions
Domain extensions or TLDs are the necessary suffixes that complete your domain address. At Yahoo! Small Business, you can choose from the following TLDs: .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us and .info.

Domain Forwarding
Domain forwarding allows you to point a domain name to any other destination web address or URL, which can be a domain name, a hostname, or even a file within a folder. The result is that when a visitor enters your domain name in their browser, they are automatically sent to the destination you've chosen. This feature is often used when customers purchase multiple domain names and then direct them all to the same web site.

Domain Locking
Domain locking is a security feature that prevents your domain name from being transferred to another domain registrar and ensures that no one can modify your name servers without your permission. When you sign up for a domain name, your domain is automatically locked.

ICANN
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is the governing body for the Internet. As a public service to Internet users, ICANN requires that every new domain must be added to the public WHOIS database, which lists detailed information about each domain owner, including your postal address, email address, and phone number.

Anyone can use this database to search for a domain name and discover who owns it. With Private Domain Registration, you can replace your private contact information in the public WHOIS database with generic contact information that points to the offices of our domain name registration partner, Melbourne IT.

IP Address
An identifier for a computer or device on a TCP/IP network. Networks using the TCP/IP protocol route messages based on the IP address of the destination. The format of an IP address is a 32-bit numeric address written as four numbers separated by periods. Each number can be zero to 255. For example, 1.160.10.240 could be an IP address.

Name Server
The name server translates a domain name into an IP address. The whois listing for your domain includes the name servers that host your domain name. For example, when Yahoo! Small Business hosts your domain, the name servers in your whois listing will be ysn1.yahoo.com and yns2.yahoo.com.

Private Domain Registration
When you register a domain using regular domain registration, your contact information automatically appears in a public database of domain owners, called WHOIS. Anyone can look up this information in WHOIS and use it to send you spam. You can help protect your privacy and reduce the likelihood of receiving spam with Yahoo! Private Domain Registration. This service is available for an additional $9.00/year and can be purchased when you sign up for your plan.

WHOIS
WHOIS refers to the public databases that store contact and technical information for domain names. Each domain registrar is required to maintain a WHOIS database for the domains they "host." These databases are accessible by anyone, 24 hours a day, and include information such as the date the domain name was registered, the date the domain name expires, the name servers, and the domain name holder's name, address, phone number, and email address.