Refers to the status of a domain name. For example, a domain name can be available, reserved or in quarantine.

Process of moving the management of a .eu domain name from one registrar to another.

See Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Relating to DNSSEC. Extra information added to a DNS reply that enables verification of its authenticity. Created by computing the hash of the reply and encrypting that hash with the sender's private key. To verify, the recipient must compute the hash as well and compare it with the provided hash after it has been decrypted. In order to decrypt, th [..]

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment and other devices that use text. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII.

Challenge-response test used to ensure that the response is generated by a human, not a computer. The process usually involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. Because other computers are unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct solution is presumed to [..]

See Domain Availability Service.

One of several statuses that a .eu domain name can have.

Relating to ADR procedures. A panel is comprised of between one and three selected panellists, who hear the arguments relating to a particular ADR and decide on the case.

Collection of domain names managed by a single registrar. A registrar's portfolio can consist of domain names from many different top-level, generic and country-code domains, for example, .eu, .be, .com, .net, etc.