Glossary

Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (National Communications Authority)

Status denoting a process with a favourable legal assessment according to the data input online, which may be subject to subsequent documental verification in accordance with a random selection. (this is a temporary status that becomes final once the technical assessment has been concluded).

American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Method of cryptography that uses a pair of keys: a public key, distributed freely and a private key, restricted only to its holder

Status marking a process that has not been finalized. It is not recoverable and a new process must be submitted

Attack on the DNS characterised by the input of data into the temporary memory of a name server, whose origin is not a trustworthy authoritative server

Centro de Gestão da Rede Informática do Governo (Management of the Government's IT Network)

Status identifying a domain that has been removed, following a request by the registrant, registrar or on the decision of the FCCN or competent legal authority

Domain Name System

Domain Name System Security Extensions

A name used to individually locate and identify computers on the Internet.

Derivative of Electronic mail

Internet Protocol

Extensible Provisioning Protocol (Protocol that governs Registry-Registrar data communications). See also Registry-Registrar Protocol

Status denoting a process that has expired due to renewal/payment default

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Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional (Foundation for National Scientific Computation)

Term used to describe transaction, payment and other financial and data operations on the Internet through the secure page of a bank

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

ERC- Entidade Reguladora da Comunicação Social (Regulating Entity for the Media).

Internationalized Domain Name

Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (National Institute of Industrial Property)

Internet Protocol version 4

Internet Protocol version 6

Internet Service Provider

Derived from the term hyperlink

Network attack that also affects the DNS service and whose objective is to intercept communications between the two machines, thereby acquiring the ability to view, insert and modify messages exchanged without the knowledge and consent of either of the parties

Application for managing the exchange of messages or information in electronic format

Machines with a DNS data repository able to translate domain names into IP addresses and vice-versa

Network sensors

This is a unique identifier used for the domain files, making it possible to associate contacts with domains.

Tax/Fiscal Identification Number

Password

Point to point connection

Status showing that a domain is in a state of pre-removal, during which time it is neither assigned nor active, but may be recovered again by the same registrant

This is a universal way of representing domains in ASCII format, whatever their original code

The .PT DNS Registrars are entities that are specialised in the registration and management of domain names.

Entity responsible for the management, registration and maintenance of domains under a certain TLD

Also known as EPP, this is a service for normalising communication between the .PT domain Registrars and the FCCN (which is the Registry of this top-level domain) whose objective it is to make the entire domain registration and maintenance procedure by these entities, automatic.

Status identifying a process which, following its legal assessment, does not meet the necessary conditions for its approval

Exactly the same status as the "Active" status but where there are no technical details. The domain name will not be activated

Regional Internet registry

This is a name server for the DNS root zone (".") and its role is to respond to DNS requests from the root zone and requests from top domain name servers

Real-time network observation instrumentation

Computing system that provides services to one or more computer networks

É um servidor de nomes para a zona raiz (".") do DNS e tem como função responder a pedidos DNS da zona raiz e pedidos de servidores de nome de domínios de topo

Status marking a process awaiting payment of the registration and maintenance fee within 48 hours. In the absence of payment within this deadline the domain expires

Status confirming that online input is finalized, awaiting legal assessment/verification according to the details input online

Status identifying that the domain has been approved but has technical irregularities which prevent it from being activated. (e.g. Primary IP Server not configured or incorrectly configured)

Top Level Domain

Username (name that uniquely identifies someone in our system)

This is the technology that enables audio and video content to be transmitted to the Internet from a particular location.

World Wide Web