ICANN Acronyms and Terms

ICANN has hundreds of acronyms and terms, which can be confusing. We created this multilingual tool to help explain what these terms mean and facilitate your work within the ICANN community.

ICANN Acronyms and Terms

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.arpa

A top-level domain used solely for the management of the network infrastructure for certain protocols such as reverse IP address lookups. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) manages .ARPA in conjunction with the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

.int

A top-level domain devoted solely to international treaty organizations. Such organizations are governed by mutual agreement among multiple countries.