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  2. Markmonitor - Wikipedia

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    Markmonitor was founded in 1999 [3] in Boise, Idaho [4] and its initial business as a service provider for the protection of corporate trademarks on the Internet. In 2000, it gained ICANN accreditation status for domain registration [5] and acquired a domain management business called AllDomains the following year.

  3. Domain name registry - Wikipedia

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    A domain name registry is a database of all domain names and the associated registrant information in the top level domains of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet that enables third party entities to request administrative control of a domain name. Most registries operate on the top-level and second-level of the DNS.

  4. WHOIS - Wikipedia

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    ICANN's list of permissible purposes includes domain-name research, domain-name sale and purchase, regulatory enforcement, personal data protection, legal actions, and abuse mitigation. [43] Although WHOIS has been a key tool of journalists in determining who was disseminating certain information on the Internet, [ 44 ] the use of WHOIS by the ...

  5. Domain registration - Wikipedia

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    In 1993 the U.S. Department of Commerce, in conjunction with several public and private entities, created InterNIC to maintain a central database that contains all the registered domain names and the associated IP addresses in the U.S. (other countries maintain their own NICs (Network Information Centers) -- there is a link below that discusses Canada's system, for example).

  6. NIC handle - Wikipedia

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    When a new domain name is registered with a domain name registrar, a NIC handle is assigned by the registrar to the particular set of information associated with that domain name (such as who registered it and a contact e-mail address). Once a domain name has been registered, its NIC handle can be used to search for that record in the database ...

  7. Registration Data Access Protocol - Wikipedia

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    It is a successor to the WHOIS protocol, used to look up relevant registration data from such Internet resources as domain names, IP addresses, and autonomous system numbers. While WHOIS essentially retrieves free text, RDAP delivers data in a standard, machine-readable JSON format. [ 1 ]

  8. Domain name registrar - Wikipedia

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    A drop catcher is a domain name registrar that offers the service of attempting to quickly register a given domain name for a customer if that name becomes available—that is, to "catch" a "dropped" name—when the domain name's registration expires and is then deleted, either because the registrant abandons the domain or because the ...

  9. Public Suffix List - Wikipedia

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    The Public Suffix List (PSL) is a community-maintained list of rules that describe the internet domain name suffixes under which independent organisations can register their own sites. Entries on the list are referred to as effective top-level domains (eTLDs), [1] and contain commonly used suffixes like com, net and co.uk, as well as private ...