Account Manager
Web hosts and registrars usually provide clients with an account manager where they can alter password, contact and billing information. Domain name registration account managers are especially useful in keeping track of domain expiration dates.

Accreditation
A formal declaration by a VeriSign-designated approving authority that a particular information system, professional or other employee or contractor, or organization is approved to perform certain duties and to operate in a specific security mode, using a prescribed set of safeguards. ICANN insures that domain registrars are operating in a upstanding manner. Look for ICANN accredited registrars.

Accredited Registrar
About Registrar Accreditation- "ICANN is a technical coordination body. Our primary objective is ensuring the stability of the Internet's system of assigned names and numbers. This objective is furthered by the requirement that every business desiring to become a registrar with direct access to ICANN-designated top-level domains must first become accredited for this purpose by ICANN."

Additional Servers
Any name servers, aside from the primary and secondary name servers listed on the Domain Name Registration Agreement, that will be available to resolve a particular domain name to its corresponding Internet Protocol (IP) number(s).

Administrative Contact
When registering a domain name, the administrative contact must be provided to the registrar when completing the registration form. The administrative contact is the individual who is responsible for acting as the primary contact. The administrative contact does not necessarily need to be able to manage the technical aspects of the domain.

Alias
A name, usually short and easy to remember, that is translated into another name, usually long and difficult to remember. DNS does aliasing. It is a lot easier to remember www.domain.com than 206.66.12.43.

Anonymous FTP
A File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is an Internet standard for transferring files between computers. Most FTP transfers require you log in to the system supplying the information by using an authorized username and password. However, a variation known as "anonymous FTP" lets you log in as "anonymous," i.e., you don't need a username or a password.

APNIC - Asia-Pacific Network Information Center
APNIC is a collaborative effort consisting of national Network Information Centers (NICs) and Internet Service Providers within the Asian-Pacific region. The APNIC acts as a regional Internet Registry, providing the allocation of Internet Protocol (IP) address space to the Asian-Pacific region.

Appraisal
The process of evaluating a domain name and determining its market value.

Auto Responder
An automated program that acknowledges receipt of an email message and then sends back a response to the sender of the email letting them know the email was received. Autoresponders are great because they provide feedback with no further action on your part after the initial set up.

Auto-Parser
An automated program that extracts information from the fields in the registration forms. The auto-parser will detect errors or incomplete information in the registration forms. Upon receipt of complete and correct registration forms the auto-parser enters the appropriate data into Network Solutions' domain name database.