Administrative Contact
An administrative contact is authorised to act on the domain owner's behalf.
The administrative contact should be able to answer any non-technical questions about the domain name's registration and the Registrant. The Administrative Contact is viewed as the authoritative point of contact for the domain name, second only to the Registrant.
See also
Technical contact
Billing contact
Application
A computer programme (software).
Most commonly referred to as an operating system application. We do, however, put operating system application on the same footing as a web application.
A-Record
A-Record (Address-record) is a native DNS record, and is the basis of a DNS reference. A-Records can only contain IP addresses, and is considered the primary reference from a domain name to a server.
Changing or creating A-Records is altering the global DNS, so changes might not be effective on the entire Internet until 24 hours after deployment.
When to use A-Records
Generally when this is the primary reference to a server of any kind. If you merely want to create a domain properties cloning, use C-Name instead.
Example:
Server A has an internet IP address of 198.0.0.1
serverA.example.com is configured with an A-Record to point to 198.0.0.1.
www.example.com is configured with a C-Name to point to serverA.example.com
www.example2.com is also configured with a C-Name to point o serverA.example.com
In that way, if server A should change its IP address due to external network issues, you only have to change the IP address one time: on serverA.example.com
See also
C-Name
Web forward
Web alias
MX-Record
Associate domains to an account – what does this mean?
When you associate domains to an account, you select at which account
the domains should be placed for later management.
The users who have access to the account to which you associate the
domains, then will be able to manage the domains (if they have manage
user rights).
Authentication
Put simply, authentication means verifying that the owner of a certain account is accessing an application. In real life, a similar situation would be opening the door to your office with an old-fashion key.
In an electronic transaction, authentication allows the recipient to have confidence in both the identity of the sender and the integrity of the message. Speednames verify your identity by your account number and password.
Authorisation
In real life, using the key provides authentication when accessing your office. Authorisation is the mere fact that you have been entitled to hold the key in your key ring.
In an electronic authorisation, permissions can be changed dynamically, from one second to the other, and is always performed by verifying with the latest edition of a permission table.
Speednames authorisation is done in the moment you are logging into your account. If you are not authorised, you will not be able to log in.
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