Glossary

ACL

Access Control List.

An ACL determines what networking traffic is allowed to pass and what traffic is blocked.

An ACL change is sometimes required to your company firewall in order to access our API.

API

Application Programmers Interface.

See Wikipedia - API Definition for more information.

B2B

Business To(2) Business

Business email hosting services are generally private, enterprise grade hosting services typically hosted in either private data centers or in cloud based infrastructure.

Business to business refers to the activity of businesses sending email to clients using business email addresses.

B2C

Business To(2) Consumer

Consumer email hosting providers are generally well known, mostly web based providers such as Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, Gmail etc.

Business to consumer refers to the activity of businesses sending email to clients using consumer email addresses.

Verifying email addresses in consumer domains is generally more technically challenging than B2B

BSON

Binary Object Notation

See Wikipedia - BSON for further information.

CORS

Cross Origin Resource Scripting

Allows modern browsers to work with script (e.g. JavaScript) and JSON data originating form other domains.

CORS is required to allow client script such a JavaScript, jQuery or AngularJS to work with results returned from an external RESTful API.

See Wikipedia - CORS for more information.

DDoS

Distributed Denial of Service

See Wikipedia - Denial-of-service attack for more information.

Domain Name Registrar

A domain name registrar is an organization that manages the reservation of Internet domain names. A domain name registrar must be accredited by a generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry or a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry. A registrar operates in accordance with the guidelines of the designated domain name registries

See Wikipedia - Domain name registrar for more information.

Domain Name Registry

A domain name registry is a database of all domain names and the associated registrant information in the top level domains of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet that allow third party entities to request administrative control of a domain name. Most registries operate on the top-level and second-level of the DNS.

See Wikipedia - Domain name registry for more information.

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

See Wikipedia - Hypertext Transfer Protocol for more information.

ISO 3166

International standard for country codes.

See Country Codes - ISO 3166 for more information.

ISO 8601

International standard for date formats. Designed to ease and simplify machine to machine transfer of date information.

See Wikipedia - ISO8601 for more information.

JSON

JavaScript Object Notation

JavaScript Object Notation, is an open standard format that uses human readable text to transmit data objects consisting of attribute value pairs. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an efficient, modern alternative to XML.

See Wikipedia - JSON for more information.

License Key

License key authentication is best for situations where simplicity is required and you can keep the key private. An ideal use case for key authentication would be for server based applications calling the RESTful API.

Click here to request a license key.

ms
Milliseconds.
parse
Turn random, unstructured (sometimes chaotic) text into a predictable, machine readable format.
parsed
See parse above.
protobuf

Protocol Buffers is a method of serializing structured data.

See Wikipedia - Protocol Buffers for more information.

RESTful

Representational state transfer

See Wikipedia - RESTful for further information.

RFC

Request for Comments

The principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for The Internet.

See Wikipedia - Request for Comments for further information.

SLA

Service Level Agreement

See Wikipedia - SLA for more information and description of SLA.

See our Service Level Agreement.

TLD

Top Level Domaain

See Wikipedia - Top-level domain for more information.

WHOIS

WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase “who is”) is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block or an autonomous system, but is also used for a wider range of other information.

See Wikipedia - WHOIS for more information.

XML

e(X)tensible Markup Language

See Wikipedia - XML for further information.