Domain glossary: terms explained in plain words
clientHold, RDAP, WHOIS privacy, nameservers and other terms you meet when registering and managing a domain.
ccTLD and gTLD: Country-Code and Generic Domain Zones
How country-code zones (.at, .to, .de) differ from generic ones (.com, .top, .xyz): registry rules, owner requirements, prices, risks and what to pick.
Certificate Transparency: Why Certificates Reveal Your Subdomains
What Certificate Transparency logs are, which domain data they hold, how hidden subdomains are found through them and how to issue certificates safely.
clientHold and serverHold: What the Domain Hold Statuses Mean
What the clientHold and serverHold domain statuses mean, who sets them, why the site stops opening and what the owner can do.
DNS Records A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT and NS in Plain Words
What each DNS record type does, which ones a site and mail need, how they are set in the Riki Domains bot and how long updates take.
Domain Lifecycle: Renewal, Grace Period and Release
What happens to a domain after it expires: grace period, redemption, deletion and re-registration. How not to lose a domain and what auto-renewal does.
IndexNow: How a Site Tells Search Engines About New Pages Itself
What the IndexNow protocol is, which search engines support it, how the key in the site root works and why projects that want fast indexing need it.
Nameservers and DNS Propagation: What They Are and How to Check
What a domain's nameservers are, when they are changed, why new records are not visible immediately and how to check that DNS has updated.
Registrar and Registry: Who Is Responsible for What
How a registrar differs from a registry and a reseller, who sets domain statuses, whom to contact when things go wrong and where Riki Domains sits.
WHOIS Privacy: How Hiding the Owner's Data Works
What WHOIS privacy is, which data it hides, what stays visible, what it costs at Riki Domains and in which zones it is not needed.
WHOIS and RDAP: The Public Domain Record
What WHOIS and RDAP are, which domain data is publicly visible, how RDAP differs from the old protocol and how to look up any domain's record.
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