\newglossaryentry{api}
{
    name={API},
    description={An Application Programming Interface (API) is a particular set
            of rules and specifications that a software program can follow to access and make use of the services and resources provided by another particular software program that implements that API.}
}

\newglossaryentry{ransomware}
{
    name={Ransomware},
    description={Ransomware is a type of malicious software from cryptovirology that threatens to publish the victim's data or perpetually block access to it unless a ransom is paid TODO cite}
}

\newglossaryentry{rir}
{
    name={Regional Internet Registry},
    description={TODO}
}

\newglossaryentry{lir}
{
    name={Local Internet Registry},
    description={TODO}
}

\newglossaryentry{ddos}
{
    name={Distributed Denial-of-Service},
    description={Distributed Denial-of-Service is an attack where multiple machines are used to generate as much workload as needed to cause downtimes of a service or machine and make benign usage impossible.}
}

\newglossaryentry{as}
{
    name={AS},
    description={An Autonomous System is a set of different networks in the Internet that allows to consistently route between those networks (i.e. an Internet Service Provider) and that exports a single interface for other AS. Each Autonomous System is assigned a officially registered unique Autonomous System Number (ASN).}
}

\newglossaryentry{bgp}
{
    name={BGP},
    description={The Border Gateway Protocol, also known as the Exterior-Gateway-Protocol (EGP), is the protocol to connect different Autonomous Systems in the Internet. Is is used to share several information for IP blocks to allow routing between different Autonomous Systems.}
}

\newglossaryentry{whois}
{
    name={Whois},
    description={Whois is a protocol, used to gather information about owners of domains in the domain name system and IP addresses, specified in RFC 1834.}
}

\newacronym{sri-nic}{SRI-NIC}{Stanford Research Institute - Network Information Center}

\newacronym{dns}{DNS}{Domain Name System}

\newacronym{ipv6}{IPv6}{Internet Protocol Version 6}

\newacronym{arpanet}{ARPANET}{Advanced Research Projects Agency Network}

\newacronym{tcp/ip}{TCP/IP}{Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol}

\newacronym{udp}{UDP}{User Datagram Protocol}

\newacronym{tcp}{TCP}{Transmission Control Protocol}

\newacronym{pdns}{pDNS}{passive DNS}

\newacronym{os}{OS}{Operating System}

\newacronym{ftp}{FTP}{File Transfer Protocol}

\newacronym{fqdn}{FQDN}{Fully Qualified Domain Name}

\newacronym{dnssec}{DNSSEC}{Domain Name System Security Extensions}

\newacronym{edns}{EDNS}{Extension mechanisms for DNS}