Domain Insider

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Affiliate	A business relationship between a commercial entity and its peers.
Aftermarket	These are websites that broker domain names that has dropped. Some of the domain names that are being sold here can be as old as the internet itself or it can be at least one year old. The domain names on these websites are auctioned off and in general older domain names that contain many backlinks command higher prices.
Alexa Ranking	A method used for determining traffic activities of a website.
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Backlinks	these are incoming links that point to a particular web page or website. Popular websites generally contain many of backlinks.
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ccTLD	Country Code Top Level Domain
Cost Per Action (CPA)	A process where advertisement companies make payment that led to sale of merchandise or service, submission of form and or subscription.
Cost Per Click (CPC)	An online advertisement model where advertisers pay for individual click that they receive from the ads displayed on a website. Also known as Pay Per Click (PPC).
CPM	This indicates the Cost Per Thousand page impressions. (The “M” represents 1000 in Roman Numeral).
Click Through Rate (CTR)	It’s a method for determining the success rate of an internet advertising campaign. Click Through Rate is calculated by dividing the number of advertisements that has been clicked with the number of HTML page that has been downloaded.
CVCV	Consonant Vowel Consonant Vowel
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Domainer	An individual or group of people who trade and sell domain names.
Domain Names	These are names that users type in the address toolbar to access a particular website. An example of a domain name is “www.domaininsider.info.”
Domain Name Server (DNS)	see Name Server
Domain Parking	A process of allowing parking companies to use your domain name and place ads relevant to it. The domain will act as a landing page that will lead users to the actual product they are looking for. Advertisements pay Domain Parking companies for lead sales and a small percentage of the payment go to domain owner.
Domain Registration	In able to own a domain name, one go to one of the many registrar websites and pay a registration fee. Annual fee(s) are required to maintain ownership of the domain.
Domain Squatter	The process of parking domain names until the owner decided to develop it.
Domain Taster	A practice that allow domainers to register domain names for a short period of time to determine the its potential for generating money while parked. A grace period of a couple days will allow domain to keep or drop the names. If the individual decided to keep the domain name, they will have to pay the annual registration fee. However, if the individual decided to drop the name he or she must pay a small fee for not registering the name.
Dropped Names	These are domain names that have been intentionally or unintentionally dropped by the owners. Domain owners drop domain names simply because they no longer have use for it. Other owners however forget to pay their annual registration fees and therefore they loose ownership of the domain.
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Escrow Service	An alternative payment to Paypal. Escrow Service act facilitate transactions between buyer & seller to prevent frauds. This payment process requires the buyer to pay in advance by transferring payment to Escrow Service. The seller must deliver the product or service that was sold to the buyer before receiving the payment. Escrow Service requires a percentage of the transaction fee for using their services Many suggest to use Escrow Service when dealing with transactions that includes large amount of money.
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Forum Signatures	Signature lines are spaces on a forum thread where users can display a statements, domain names, auctions, websites, services, etc. Everytime a user post a thread on a forum their signature lines become visible below their response.
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ICANN	Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers; This is a non-profit corporation who are involve in regulating and assigning domain names as well as IP addresses.
IDN	International Domain Names
IMHO	In My Honest Opinion
Impressions	It is another term for “viewing” an online advertisement webpage after clicking on it.
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L	one letter word
LL	two letter word
LLL	three letter word
LLLL	four letter word
LLLLL	five letter word
LLN	Letter Letter Number
LNN	Letter Number Number
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Minisites	Minisites are sub websites that contain small amount of information regarding one particular subject. These minisites generally contain information that ask visitors to sign up for newsletters or to buy a product or service online.
Microsite	see Minisite
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N	1 Number
NN	2 Numbers
NNN	3 Numbers
NNNN	4 Numbers
NNNNN	5 Numbers
Name Server	These are the actual IP addresses that each domain names have i.e. DomainInsider.info. Each domain name must be connected to two name servers which are primary server (NS1) and secondary server (NS2), to make sure that the domain is accessible even when one of the server is experiencing down time.
None Premium Letters	these are the letters that make up a domain name and are considered less valuable compare to the premium letters. Premium letters and none premium letters are mostly relevant when dealing with 3 letters, 4 letter, or 5 letters word domain names.
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Page Impression	Another term for viewing a webpage.
Parking	These are companies that uses undeveloped domain names and place advertisements on them. The domain names will generally have basic templates and relevant advertisements are displayed on them. The domain owners will share a small percentage of payment that these parking companies received from the advertising companies.
Parking Panel	These are control panels that allow domain owners limited but useful tools to customize the landing page of their domain name.
Paypal	An online payment service that many people use to purchase goods and service in the internet. A small transaction fee is required to use this service.
Pay Per Action (PPA)	An advertising model in which advertisers will only pay for the clicks made by visitors that results into leads, page view, or sale of their product or services.
Pay Per Click (PPC)	The average amount of revenue that a website generate each time a user click on an advertisement that are displayed on their website.
Pay Per Hit (PPH)	see PPC
Pay Per Lead (PPL)	An advertising model that allow advertisers to pay only when an actual customer signup for a program or contract.
Pay Per Sale (Pay Per Sale)	An advertising model that only require advertisers to pay when an actual product or service is sold.
Portfolio	Portfolio simply refers to entire collections of domain names that an individual have. Some domainers have ten domains while other have hundreds or even thousands of domain names. The drawback of having too many domains is keeping track to of all of them. In addition keeping up with the annual fees can be problematic when one has to pay an average of $9 for renewal fee per name.
Premium Letters	These consists of alphabet letters that makes up the domain and are considered more valuable than none premium letters.
Private Domain Registration	A method that allow domain owners to keep most of their contact information hidden from the public to prevent unnecessary solicitation. Any domain owner can keep their information private that requires an annual fee per domain name. However, it is suggested that domain owners should keep their contact information available so that potential domain buyers can get hold of them.
Private Message (PM)	A method that allows two or more parties to conduct their businesses privately in a forum by sending one another private messages instead of posting them on a thread where everyone can see it.
Proxy Server	A proxy server act as a facilitator that connect internet users to different online resources that they are requesting for.
Push	the process of transferring a domain name(s) from one domain owner to another. Both the original owner and the new owner of the domain must have accounts at the same registrar in able to conduct the transferring process.
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Regged	The process of registering a domain name
Registrar	Online domain name registration websites. In able to own a domain name, one must register the domain to a designated registrar. You must keep in mind that an annual renewal fee is required to maintain ownership of the domain. Otherwise the name will be dropped and get acquired by someone else.
Return Of Investment (ROI)	The amount of money gained from initial investment. It is the profit made after deducting the amount of money that is initially spent to start the business.
Revenue Per Clicks (RPC)	see Pay Per Click
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Search Engine Index	The process of cataloging and indexing webpages on the search engine so that information regarding a specific subject can be retrieved immediately.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)	A method of improving traffic quality to a website using natural or organic search results.
SERP Ranking	SERP stands for Search Engine Result Page. It’s the list of web pages that a search engine provide regarding the keywords of interest that was requested.
Sitemap	It refers to the list of webpages that makes up a website.
Subdomains	These are sub category of the actual domain that contain webpages regarding a particular subject. An example of subdomain is “news.domaininsider.info.” In this subdomain, the subject pertains to the news about domain industry in general.
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TLD	Top Level Domain.
Trademark Names	Be advice that registering a domain containing trademark names of establish company can get you deep trouble.
Traffic Tasters	see Domain Tasters
Transfer	The process of transferring a name from one domain owner to another. The domain owner will transfer the domain name to the new owner after receiving a payment for that name.
Treads	A webpage created by an individual in a forum that discusses any particular topic.
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UDRP	Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy
Uniques	It pertains to the number of unique visitors that had landed on your website.
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Watch List	These are list of domain names that domainers used to keep track of names that are being sold online, in an auction, or backorders.
Weblet	see Minisite
Website Directories	These are directories that allow you to catalog your website.
Whois	An online directory that allows potential buyers to obtain the contact information of the owner of the domain that they are interested in purchasing.
Whois Privacy	see Private Domain Registration.