A domain name that has been registered without a website to go with it. WIth such stiff competition for 'good' web names, often a company or individual will reserve the name of their choice before they have built a site. However, since the very nature of a domain name is a rerouting process, InterNIC needs a real numerical address to reroute this domain name. Parking a domain tells tells InterNIC to route the name to someone else's server temporarily until you have your own website built. A universal file format for video clips.
All sites have keywords in their meta tags noting the contents or points of interest of a site.
The search engines use these to catagorize your site in searches. Due to the monstrous number of sites online today, regular submission of your site to these search engines posts your site higher in the listing as others submit their sites as well. A specification of an internet connection. When accessing a page 'on' a secure server, the request is routed through a connection which encodes the page during transmission. The code to read the encrypted message is invisibly sent to the end-user's computer which is able to read the file correctly.