| CORE | Council of Registrars, a not-for-profit shared Registry set up by the IAHC report. Current (9/99) membership 55 companies.
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| ccTLDs | Country code Top Level Domains. (Referring to the ISO 3166 standard two letter codes for countries and territorial entities).
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| Cybersquatting
| Speculative (or abusive) registration of trademarks owned by third parties.
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| Delegation | Delegation by ICANN/IANA of a TLD in the Internet Root.
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| Designation | Designation by the relevant government or public authority of the Deleguee, recognised as competent to create the Registry organisation and database.
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| DNS | Domain Name System
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| GAC | ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee
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| gTLDs | Generic Top Level Domains (such as .COM, .ORG, .INT etc.)
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| IAHC | International Ad Hoc Committee
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| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (predecessor to ICANN)
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| ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (successor organisation to IANA)
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| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force
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| ISO | International Standards Organisation, Geneva
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| ISOC | Internet Society
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| NSI | Network Solutions Incorporated, a subsidiary of Science Applications Investment Corporation — SAIC
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| RFC | Request for Comments: originally a label for a draft Internet (IETF) standard. In practice, once a standard has been stabilised by consensus, the title RFC (No) is not changed.
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| Warehousing | Speculative registration of significant numbers of words or names, not necessarily for current use but in the expectation of transferring them at a profit subsequently.
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