Annoying Tech Jargon Glossary

Welcome to my glossary of annoying tech jargon and translations for normal human beings.

Domain: A domain name is a unique, easy-to-remember address used to access websites, such as 'google.com', and 'facebook.com'.

Registrar: Where you buy and renew your domain (i.e. GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare)

DNS: Domain Name System - phonebook for the internet

Hosting: A computer on the internet that runs your website or applications

CDN: Content Delivery Network - lets people load your website from the closest server to them instead of your web host which could be slower and farther away

Redirect: Sending people to a different website domain than they originally typed in for your secondary domains (i.e. yourdomain.org to yourdomain.com)

SPF: Sender Framework Policy - tells the internet who sends email for your domain (i.e. Google, Microsoft, email marketing systems)

DKIM: DomainKeys Identified Mail - Adds an encryption certificate to all emails that are matched to your domain; helps keep the emails you send out of junk and prevent people from sending from your domain without permission

DMARC: Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance - tells email recipients’ systems what to do with email that doesn’t pass SPF & DKIM (i.e. quarantine, reject, none) and reports the email being sent from your domain