Administrative contact or contact-admin or admin-c
The name, address, telephone number and email address of the person designated by the holder of a domain name under the .fr, .re, .tf, .pm, .wf or .yt TLD when the domain name is created by Afnic. It is mandatory throughout the life of the domain name. The administrative contact must be established in France and must have a valid address in order to receive judicial or extrajudicial documents. The name of the administrative contact is published in the Whois directory.
Afnic
French acronym for the French Network Information Centre (Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération)
Afnic is the management centre (registry) and resource centre (NIC France) of country code Top Level Domain names (ccTLDs) for .fr (France), .re (Reunion Island), .pm (St. Pierre and Miquelon), .tf (French Southern Territories), .wf (Wallis and Futuna), and .yt (Mayotte)
For more information visit: AFNIC overview
AFRINIC
Non-profit organisation responsible for allocating and managing lists of IP addresses for the Africa. AFRINIC is one of five regional internet centres or "Regional Internet Registries" (RIR) providing the administrative and technical coordination for addressing and routing functions through the network (allocation of IP addresses, AS numbers).
Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures (ADR)
"Alternative Dispute Resolution" procedures are an out of court method available to those who consider that a third party has violated their rights by filing a domain name and/or is using in a way that is detrimental to them.
There are several procedures each managed by a different authority. Note that the Afnic does not intervene in these procedures and remains neutral.
APNIC
Asia Pacific Network Information Center
Non-profit organisation in charge of IP resources for Asia and the Pacific .
APNIC is one of five regional internet centres, or "Regional Internet Registries" (RIR) in the world. It provides the administrative and technical coordination for addressing and routing functions through the network (allocation of IP addresses, AS numbers).
ARIN
American Registry for Internet Numbers
Non-profit organisation responsible for allocating and managing lists of IP addresses for the North America areas and much of Africa. ARIN is one of five regional internet centres or "Regional Internet Registries" (RIR) providing the administrative and technical coordination for addressing and routing functions through the network (allocation of IP addresses, AS numbers).
ARPANET
Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork
Developed during 1960s and 1970s by the Department of Defense of the U.S. government, ARPANET was the first network based on the principle of packet forwarding, i.e. segments of information identified by a unique header that can be transmitted independently of each other along any one of several routes from the sender to the recipient. It is the predecessor of the Internet as we know it today.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Standardised 7-bit coding system (from 0000000 to 1111111) for alphanumeric characters based on the set of 128 most commonly used characters in American English and in IT applications. The accents in other languages, such as French, are supported by the ISO extensions of ASCII (such as ISO8859-1 for French).
Authentication
IT security measure which consists in verifying the digital identity of a person before allowing them to access a network, a computer or web space.
Example: Persons wishing to access the private area of the Afnic website must authenticate themselves by specifying their username and password.
