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1 **Registrar**
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3 Domain Name Registrars are the organizations responsible facilitating the leasing of domains from the Internet Domain Registry to a domain registrant.  They allow the registrant to define the which DNS Server is authoritative for the domain
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5 **Authoritative Name Server**
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7 A name server is a program that converts a domain name into an IP address.  An Authoritative name server is the name server that is considered the definitive source of records for a domain.  The Authoritative Name Server contains the master copy of the Zone Record for the domain from which all other names servers will query.
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9 **Zone Record / DNS Records**
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11 A zone record is a simple database that defines all the Domain Name System Records for a domain.  Website addresses and mail server addresses are examples of the kinds of information that is stored in a zone record.  These records are served out by the Authoritative Name Server to anyone that requests information for that domain.
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13 **DNS Service**
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15 A DNS Service is the software that allows a someone to edit/update the DNS Records for a domain's Authoritative Name Server.
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17 **Hosting**
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19 Hosting refers to
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21 Website
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