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Website Care, Performance & Security · Security & Privacy

Cyber Insurance

Cyber insurance is insurance designed to cover specified financial losses and response costs from defined cybersecurity incidents, subject to policy terms and exclusions.

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Website Care, Performance & Security · Maintenance & Reliability

DDoS Attack

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack tries to make a website or network service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from many sources.

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Website Care, Performance & Security · Security & Privacy

DKIM Record

A DKIM record is a DNS record containing a public key used to verify a cryptographic signature attached to outgoing email.

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Website Care, Performance & Security · Security & Privacy

DMARC Policy

A DMARC policy is a domain-level email authentication instruction published in DNS that tells receiving systems how the sender wants messages failing aligned SPF or DKIM checks to be handled.

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Website Care, Performance & Security · DNS & Certificate Security

DNS CAA Record

A DNS CAA record tells compliant certificate authorities which issuers may issue certain TLS certificates for a domain.

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Website Design & Development · Site Foundations & Architecture

DNS Hosting

DNS hosting is the service that makes a domain's DNS records available to systems looking up where its website, email, and other services are located.

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Website Care, Performance & Security · Security & Privacy

DNS MX Record

A DNS MX record tells email systems which mail servers are designated to receive messages for a domain.

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Website Care, Performance & Security · Maintenance & Reliability

DNS Propagation

DNS propagation is the informal name for the period during which updated domain name records become visible through different DNS resolvers and caches.

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Website Care, Performance & Security · Maintenance & Reliability

DNS Record

A DNS record is a piece of information published in the Domain Name System to help other systems locate or verify services associated with a domain.

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Website Care, Performance & Security · Domain Operations & Security

DNS Record Audit

A DNS record audit is a structured review of the DNS settings that direct a domain's website, email, and other services.

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Website Care, Performance & Security · DNS & Domain Configuration

DNS TXT Record

A DNS TXT record stores text associated with a domain name in the Domain Name System.

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Website Care, Performance & Security · Maintenance & Reliability

DNS Time to Live (TTL)

DNS time to live (TTL) is a value in a Domain Name System record that tells caching resolvers how long they may retain that record before checking again.

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