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Domainer

A person who invests in domain names as a business or profession. Domainers buy, sell, develop, and monetize domain names for profit. The term encompasses everyone from part-time hobbyists with small portfolios to full-time professionals managing thousands of domains worth millions of dollars.

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Keyword Domain

A Keyword Domain refers to a domain name that includes specific words or phrases related to the content, product, service, or industry of the website it's associated with. These keywords are typica...

CNAME

Canonical Name Record - a DNS record type that maps an alias domain name to the true (canonical) domain name.

Cloaking

A technique where different content is shown to search engines than to regular visitors, often considered a black-hat SEO practice.

gTLD

Generic Top-Level Domain

COM

".com" is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from the word "commercial," indicating its original intended purpose for domains registered by ...

DR (Domain Rating)

A metric developed by Ahrefs that measures the strength of a domain's backlink profile on a scale from 0 to 100.