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What Is A Firewall

What Is A Firewall?

Difficulty: Medium

A firewall is a type of computer network security system that puts a restriction on internet traffic entering, leaving, and wit...

What Is FTP

What Is FTP?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for file transfer protocol, FTP, also known as RFC 959 is a communication protocol and internet standard that is used for...

What Is Peer To Peer Communication

What Is Peer-To-Peer Communication?

Difficulty: Medium

Peer-to-peer communication, also known as P2P communication is the transmission of files over a network through the use of two....

What Is HTTP

What Is HTTP?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP is a protocol that is used for the transmission of information between web browsers...

What Is Bandwidth

What Is Bandwidth?

Difficulty: Medium

Bandwidth is a term that refers to the measure of the maximum amount of data that can be transmitted from one position to anoth...

What Is A Wireless Access Point

What Is A Wireless Access Point?

Difficulty: Medium

A wireless access point, also known as a WAP, or simply an access point is a device that allows devices with wireless capabilit...

What Is A Hotspot

What Is Tethering?

Difficulty: Medium

Tethering, also known as phone-as-modem (PAM) is the sharing of the internet connection of a mobile phone to a connected comput...

What Is A CAN

What Is A CAN?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for a campus area network or a corporate area network, a CAN is a computer network of multiple interconnected LANs that....

What Is A Proxy Server

What Is A Proxy Server?

Difficulty: Medium

A proxy server, also known as a proxy, forwards traffic sent from a computer to the proxy server and may offer an anonymous net...

What Is A HAN

What Is A HAN?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for a home area network, a HAN is a small type of network that is designed to cover a home, as suggested in the name. It....

What Is A MAN

What Is A MAN?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for a metropolitan area network, a MAN is a much larger network than a LAN, but smaller than a WAN. It is used for provi...

What Is A Wireless Application Protocol

What Is A Wireless Application Protocol?

Difficulty: Medium

A wireless application protocol, also known as a WAP is a technology that enables the retrieval of information over a mobile wi...

What Is A WAN

What Is A WAN?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for a wide area network, a WAN is a term that describes a large computer network that is fixed to a single location and covers a wide geographical area, such as multiple cities. It is the opposite of a LAN (local...

What Is A LAN

What Is A LAN?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for a local area network, a LAN is a term that describes a network that connects nearby devices within a limited area. Ex...

What Is A VPN

What Is A VPN?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for a virtual private network, a VPN provides a secure and private connection over a public, business, or home network by...

What Is An IP Address

What Is An IP Address?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for internet protocol address, an IP address is a string of four unique numbers, separated by full stops that are assigne...

What Is IANA

What Is IANA?

Difficulty: Medium

IANA is short for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority and it is an organisation that is responsible for the assignment of internet numbers, as suggest...

What Is A Domain Registrant

What Is A Domain Registrant?

Difficulty: Medium

A domain registrant is a user or company that owns and conducted the registration of a certain domain name. Domain registrants....

What Is An Expired Domain

What Is An Expired Domain?

Difficulty: Medium

An expired domain refers to a domain name that has been registered by someone, but hasn't been renewed before its expiry date.....

What Is Freenom

What Is Freenom?

Difficulty: Medium

Freenom (also known as dot.tk) is a free domain provider that offers five TLDs for free, which include .tk, .ml, .cf, .ga, and .gq. Freenom is known as 'th...

What Is ICANN

What Is ICANN?

Difficulty: Medium

ICANN is short for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and it is a non-profit organisation that was founded on....

What Is WHOIS

What Is WHOIS?

Difficulty: Medium

WHOIS is a protocol that first started in 1982, containing a public database of information about all registered domain names.....

What Is A Domain Registrar

What Is A Domain Registrar?

Difficulty: Medium

A domain registrar is a company that allows users to register domain names, which are URLs that are made up of alphanumeric let...

What Is A TLD

What Is A TLD?

Difficulty: Medium

A TLD is short for a top-level domain and it is the extension that appears at the end of the domain name after the dot, such as...

What Is A Subdomain

What Is A Subdomain?

Difficulty: Medium

A subdomain, also known as a child domain refers to a domain that is part of another domain, such as the address of this websi...

What Is A Premium Domain

What Is A Premium Domain?

Difficulty: Medium

A premium domain refers to a domain that is already owned by a registrant or an organisation, but is for sale and available for purchase, normally at a very high price, costing...

What Is A Parked Domain

What Is A Parked Domain?

Difficulty: Medium

A parked domain refers to a registered, but unused domain name that doesn't show any actual content and only shows advertisemen...

What Is Domain Squatting

What Is Domain Squatting?

Difficulty: Medium

Domain squatting, also known as cybersquatting is the act of registering a domain with the sole purpose of preventing another u...

What Is Typosquatting

What Is Typosquatting?

Difficulty: Medium

Typosquatting is the act of registering misspellings or typos of common domain names in the hope that a user mistypes the URL and visits the typosquatted website. Such domains could 'phish' for other people's details and try to trick them into entering...

What Is A Domain Name

What Is A Domain Name?

Difficulty: Medium

A domain name is an address that can be seen in the URL field of the web browser. Domain names have a custom name, usually the....