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GERWAN GmbH
Immenburgstrasse 20
53121 Bonn
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)228 / 969677-0
Fax: +49 (0)228 / 969677-99
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http://www.DomainProvider.de
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Mo-Fr: 10am - 6pm (technical support)
Mo-Fr: 10am - 1pm (accounting)
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The following glossary includes a total of 62 terms, deriving from the fields of internet (general), Domains, Hosting, Internet-Technologies, etc. should a term be missing from our list, please feel free to contact us.
hits | A "hit" is a single inquiry to a webserver and is counted in so called "log-files". Each viewing of a webpage counts as one "Hit". Loading ten webpages in the internet then raises the statistical count of hits by ten. |
homepage | The homepage is the starting-page of an internet appearance. The page following an "intro-page", that is, the main internet presence, is referred to as the homepage. |
hosting | Hosting describes the providing of storage capacity and domains of an internet service provider and usually includes e-mail-hosting, providing mail-addresses, and server-hosting, which offers the customer a complete computer system. |
HTML | Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a formating language used to create and edit internet pages. HTML is the basic frame that is interpreted by web-browsers to release and allow visitors access to a webpage. This markup language is continually refined and further developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The most recent version is 4.01, while the W3C is currently developing the HTML 5. |
HTTP | The Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the most common protocol in the internet and is the general protocol of the world-wide data network. By entering "http://www.my_domain.de?, the data is sent in the hyper-text format (signalled through the "http://"). The protocoll allows the tranfer of high-resolution graphics, sounds, and videos that have been created with HTML. |
