Terminologies

Glossary for terms we use on Concordium Name Service

• CNS - Concordium name service.

• CNS NFT - A CNS domain token. User owning the CNS NFT also owns the corresponding domain and can make changes to it.

• Domain/Name - A CNS identifier such as 'alice.ccd'. Names may consist of multiple parts, called labels, separated by dots.

• Grace period - A period of time when expired token can't be registered by any other user to allow original user to extend subscription.

• Label - An individual component of a name, such as 'alice'.

• Labelhash - The Keccak-256 hash of an individual label.

• Namehash - The algorithm used to process a domain name and return a cryptographic hash uniquely identifying that name.

• Registration - A process of claiming a new or expired domain for a limited amount of time.

• Registry - A storage contract responsible for storing the domain data.

• Royalty - A fee that should be transfered on token sale.

• Subdomain - A child domain that has more than one components.

• Subscription extension - A process of extending the subscription period for given domain.