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 General Questions

What’s a domain name?

• A domain name is the familiar, easy-to-remember name for a web site on the Internet, such as: bizcn.com. Domain names are used as a convenient way of locating Web Sites, people and information on the Internet. The supported characters in a domain name include letters a to z (case insensitive) and the numbers 0 to 9. For added flexibility, the dash character ( - ) may also be used to create your domain name.

Who will be the domain owner when I register a domain name with Castles?

• You own the domain name, just as if you had purchased it through any other ICANN accredited Registrar like Network Solutions/Verisign. In the “Domain Name Manager” section you will be able to manage all four contact fields for the domain at will, modify its name servers, or use the domain to register your own name servers. We do not charge for any of these services, giving you the freedom to do with your domain as you want, when you want.

How long does it take for a domain to become active?

• Castles processes registrations in real-time with the registry. However, it can take anywhere from 24-48 hours for a domain name to fully propagate across the Internet and become accessible.

What is domain lock?

• Although your domains are already securely managed, this FREE option also locks your domain name at the Registry itself providing an additional layer of protection from inadvertent changes to your domain's name servers or contact information, and changes of ownership. More importantly, Domain Name Locking prevents unauthorized transfers because the Registry will reject the transfer request immediately for you. The transfer is denied before it even gets started!

What is the WHOIS?

• The WHOIS is a utility that allows people to see the contact information and owner of a domain.

Can my WHOIS information be hidden from the public?

• The ownership and contact information for your domain is public information. For an additional fee your email With SRSplus Private Registration, your customers private contact information is kept out of the public WHOIS database. When you add the SRSplus Private Registration service to your domain name registrations, alternate contact information is displayed in the registrant’s WHOIS listing, protecting the registrant’s contact information from public view.

Domain Registration Pricing

TLDs	Registration Fee/Year	Minimum Term Registration
.COM	$25.00	1 Year
.NET	$25.00	1 Year
.ORG	$25.00	1 Year
.BIZ	$25.00	1 Year
.INFO	$25.00	1 Year
.NAME	$25.00	1 Year
.CO.UK	$25.00	2 Years
.ME.UK	$25.00	2 Years
.ORG.UK	$25.00	2 Years
.US	$25.00	1 Year
.TV	$65.00	1 Year
.CC	$60.00	1 Year
.WS	$45.00	1 Year
.BZ	$45.00	1 Year
.TC	$45.00	1 Year
.GS	$45.00	1 Year
.MS	$45.00	1 Year
.VG	$45.00	1 Year

Definitions

Administrative Contact
The domain name administrator with full authority to authorize updates, including contact information and name server information for a domain name.

Application Program Interface (API)
An interface used by a programmer writing an application program to make requests of the operating system or another application.

Billing Contact
The contact responsible for paying registration and renewal fees for a domain name.

Contact Handle
The unique identifying code for a registrant linked to a file in the registry, which contains contact information. Registrants are assigned a contact handle at the time of their first domain name registration.

Distribution Partner
Providers who buy domain names for a significant discount to resell to and provide real-time domain name registrations directly to customers from their Web sites.

Domain Name
A meaningful and easy-to-remember "handle" for an Internet address (such as Dot.tv), that corresponds to a series of numbers (internet protocol numbers), which locates an organization or other entity on the Internet. Once registered, the domain name belongs to the registrar for as long as they continue to pay and follow the terms of use.

Domain Name System (DNS)
Maps the host name of a computer to the host name of the Web site. The domain name system (DNS) is the way that Internet domain name are located and translated into Internet Protocol addresses.

Internet Protocol (IP)
The method by which data is sent from one computer to another on the Internet.

FastTrack
Web-based registration tool that allows partners to register domain names in real time and manage customers without integrating the SRSplus API.

IP Address
The numeric address that refers to a specific machine or resource on the Internet. Every server on the internet has at least one IP address that uniquely identifies it from all other computers on the Internet.

Internet Service Provider (ISP)
A company that provides individuals and other company's access to the Internet and other related services such as Web site building and e-mail service. Name Server A computer that maps domain names to their IP addresses (also known as DNS or host servers).

Perl
A script programming language.

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
A program used to encrypt and decrypt e-mail over the Internet. It can also be used to send an encrypted digital signature that lets the receiver verify the sender's identity and know that the message was not changed en route.

Private Key
An encryption/decryption key known only to the party or parties that exchange secret messages.

Public Key
A public key is a value provided by some designated authority as a key that, combined with a private key derived from the public key, can be used to effectively encrypt messages and digital signatures. In a public key system, each user has a publicly known encryption key and a private key known only to that user. Messages are encrypted using the receiver's public key. When they receive it, they decrypt it using their private key.

Registrant
A person, organization, or company that registers a domain name.

Registrar
(or "Domain Name Registrar")An organization or individual that acts on behalf of a registrant to register a domain name and manage updates and changes to that name record thereafter.

Registry
The Internet Registry manages the Internet's domain name system, the formal recording of a domain name, and its authorized contact DNS server information.

Signature
An electronic signature used to authenticate the identity of the sender of a message. Also used to ensure that the original content of the message is unchanged.

Second Level Domain (SLD)
The next highest level of hierarchy underneath the Top Level Domain (TLD). The portion of the domain name that comes before the "." Identifies the specific and unique administrative owner associated with an Internet Protocol address (IP address).

Shared Registry System (SRS)
A domain name registration where multiple accredited domain name registrars are licensed to submit registrations into the single shared root server database.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
A commonly used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet.

Technical Contact
The contact that has the authority to update name server information but not the authority to transfer ownership or administrative rights.

Top Level Domain (TLD)
The highest level of the hierarchy in the Domain Name System. The portion of the domain name that comes after the dot "." (.com, .net, .tv)

Universal Resource Locator (URL)
A unique identifier.

WHOIS Who is...?
A program used for domain name search

Legal Notice
SRS Plus is a program of Network Solutions.
All Terms and Conditions of Network Solutions are made a part of the SRS Plus Domain Registration Program.