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Certificates: Secure or Digital Issued by a Certificate Authority such as VeriSign, a Secure Certificate is proof that a website is linked to a legitimate business, with a physical address and phone number.  The Authority will verify the identity of merchants and issue each a digital or authentication certificate.
CGI Scripts CGI scripts allow you to add forms, and other user defined content to your pages .Writing a CGI program or script is similar to writing any other C program or Perl script.
Com When these letters appear in lowercase type at the end of an address, they indicate that a company, rather than a university or government agency, runs the host computer.
Commercial Website An e-commerce website with a global presence for your business to securely do business over the Internet.  Also referred to as: E-commerce websites, Electronic store front or Virtual store.
Cookies A file that is stored in your browser by a particular website and is pulled every time you revisit the site.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) A set of overlay rules that are read by your HTML browser, which uses these rules for doing the display, layout and formatting of the XML-generated HTML file(s).
Data Transfer Data transfer is the amount of information downloaded from a website.
Disk Space Disk space describes your website's storage capacity for HTML, graphics, pictures, etc.
DNS Domain Name System.  A database system that translates an IP address into a Domain Name.
Domain Name A portion of the URL which is a unique name that identifies an Internet address.  Internet address are numbers like: 123.456.789.00 which are easily read by computers.  Domain Names make it easier for humans to read.
Domain Name Registration Domain Name Registration is the process of registering your website address with an official Internet registrar.
Domain Transfer When a domain name is moved from one Internet address to another, the new address must be recorded by the domain registrar to allow Internet Domain Name Servers to point to the new location.
Download To copy a file from another machine, usually a host machine, to store on your machine.
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