Parking : Term used for temporarily placing a record in a name server for later use. Many registrars while park your domain at no cost until you are ready to build a web site. This allows the person to own the domain name without having to worry about creating and hosting a site for the domain name.

Period of Registration : The number of years for which a domain name is registered is called period of registration.. Currently domains can be registered for any period from one to ten years.

Personal Registration : Domain registration made on behalf of a private individual rather than a company, corporation or organization.

Pre-Registration Domain : To place an order for a domain name that currently does not exist, normally because the TLD has yet to come into existence.

PGP Public Key Server : A database of information that can be queried to find someone's public key. It is used for commonly used for encryption and authentication for email messages and data files.

Primary Server :On Domain Bank's Domain Name Service Agreement, the section where the registrant indicates the host name and Internet Protocol (IP) number of the name server that will contain authoritative information for the domain name and will be used to resolve that domain name to its corresponding IP number(s). The primary server section of the Agreement is a required section and the domain name registration will not be processed unless this section of the Domain Name Service Agreement is completed properly.

Private Key Encryption : An encryption system in which both the sender and recipient of a message share a single, common key that is used to both encrypt and decrypt the message is called private key encryption.

Propagation :The process whereby changes to the DNS records for a domain name at the authoritative name server find their way to the root servers and other name servers on the Internet.

Public Key Encryption : An encryption method that uses the concept of a key ring. The key ring uses a public and private key. The public and private keys are intended to work together.

Purchase Domain : The act of buying an already-registered domain in the resale market. is called Purchase Domain.