Unless otherwise specified, capitalized terms used in this Agreement shall have the meanings set forth below.
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“Confidential Information” means material, data, systems and other information concerning the operation, business projections, market goals, financial affairs, products, services, customers and Intellectual Property Rights of the other party that may not be accessible or known to the general public. Confidential Information shall include, but shall not be limited to, any information which concerns technical details of operation of the Services.
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“DNS” means the Domain Name System that is a distributed database and hierarchical global infrastructure deployed on the Internet and private IP-based networks used to resolve domain names into IP addresses.
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“DNS Query” shall mean a request received by the Name Servers.
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“DNS Security Extensions” or “DNSSEC” shall mean a service which allows a Customer to digitally sign its Domain Name’s authoritative zone data.
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“Intellectual Property Rights” mean any and all now known or hereafter existing rights associated with the United States and foreign copyrights (including, without limitation, the right to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, publicly display and publicly perform the copyrighted work), database rights, trademarks (including, without limitation, trade dress, trade names, service marks, corporate names and logos), inventions, patents (including, without limitation, the right to make, use, offer for sale and sell), patent applications, software, firmware, know-how, trade secrets, moral rights and all rights or forms of protection of proprietary rights of every kind and of a similar nature, or having similar effect to any of them, which may exist throughout the world however designated, whether or not any of them is registered, and having applications for registration for any of the foregoing.
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“Name Servers” means the name servers, hardware, software, data, algorithms and processes used to host and resolve DNS Queries.
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“Service Infrastructure” includes, but is not limited to, the database, Name Servers, application servers, application gateways, network devices, software, specifications, protocols, IP addresses, configurations, routing data and processes and any other tangible or intangible asset used by Namecheap to provide the Services.