GLOSSARY

International trade terms

Export Marketing Research Scheme (EMRS) – one of UKTI’s services to help companies carry out export marketing research on all the major aspects of any export venture

Export Communications Review (ECR) – one of UKTI’s services to promote better international communication

Gateway to Global Growth (3G) – one of UKTI’s services for experienced exporters to help them diversify into new markets and expand exports in existing markets

Market Visit Support (MVS) – one of UKTI’s services to small and medium-sized companies who are either new exporters or existing exporters wishing to target new overseas markets

Overseas Market Introduction Scheme (OMIS) – one of UKTI’s services via the British embassies, high commissions and consulates across the world, to help with initial market research, to arranging a market visit, to build contacts and to make introductions and help close deals for British businesses.

Passport to Export (P2E) – UKTI’s flagship service to assess a company’s readiness for international business and mentor programme to help it build international trade capacity

UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) – The UK Government’s department to encourage inward investment to the UK and to encourage UK firms to export and grow internationally.  It provides trade advice and practical support to UK-based companies wishing to grow their business overseas. It has 2,400 staff and a presence in 96 countries worldwide.

International web terms

Drupal – enterprise level content management system

Geotargeting – targeting your website to visitors in a particular country

Joomla! – a content management system for developing a website

WordPress – a content management system for developing a website

Generic top-level domain name (gTLD) – a non-geographic domain name e.g. .com .biz .eu .asia

Country code top-level domain name (ccTLD) – a local domain for a country e.g. .co.uk or .fr

Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) – registration of domains in other languages and scripts and not in non-Latin alphabet e.g. Chinese, Korean, Russian

i18n – internationalisation or internationalization of software and websites.  Find out more about i18n (it’s a bit technical!)>>

ISO 3166 – international two-letter country codes.  Find a list of ISO 3166 country codes>>

ISO 639 – international two-letter language codes.  Find a list of ISO 639 language codes>>

Technology terms

Static IP address – same IP address every time a user connects to the internet

Dynamic IP address – IP address changes every time a user connects to the internet

Shared IP address – when more than one computer has the same IP address, usually in an office environment

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – responsible for domains and IP addresses

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) – manages IP addresses and allocates blocks of IP addresses to five regional internet registries

Regional internet registries – include APNIC, AFRINIC, ARIN, RIPE and LACNIC

Domain Name System (DNS)

Internet Protocol (IP) addresses

Internet Service Providers (ISP)

Nameservers – computer server that hosts a website

Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) – process operated by ICAAN to resolve disputes over the rights to domain names

Whois – public information regarding Internet domain name registration ownership

WWW2 – sometimes used as a subdomain on a website server to hold different content or for load balancing on a server to prevent an overload.  Find out more about WWW2 (it’s a bit technical!)>>

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