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Encyclopedia > Registrars

Registrar may refer to:

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Government registry

Main article: Civil registry

In British usage, a registrar or registrar of births, deaths and marriages registers (records) all births marriages and deaths occurring within his/her sub district. A superintendent registrar facilitates the legal preliminaries to marriage, conducts civil marriage ceremonies and retains in his/her custody all completed birth, death and marriage registers for the district. Both offices are statutory posts created by Act of Parliament in 1837. The office of the superintendent registrar is the district Register office, often referred to in the media as the Registry office. Today both officers may also conduct statutory civil partnership preliminaries and ceremonies, citizenship ceremonies and other non statutory ceremonies such as naming or renewal of vows. Certified copies of the entries made by the registrars over the years are issued on a daily basis either for genealogical research or for modern legal purposes such as supporting passport applications or ensuring eligibility for the appropriate junior sports leagues. In most countries, births, deaths, and marriages are recorded at a government controlled births, deaths and marriages registry office (eg. ...

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Court

In law courts, a registrar is responsible for the administration of the court service, and may also have a quasi-judicial role A court is an official, public forum which a sovereign establishes by lawful authority to adjudicate disputes, and to dispense civil, labour, administrative and criminal justice under the law. ...

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Academic institution

In education, a registrar or registry is an official in an academic institution (a college, university, or secondary school) who handles student records. Typically, a registrar processes registration requests, schedules classes and maintains class lists, enforces the rules for entering or leaving classes, and keeps a permanent record of grades and marks. The University of Cambridge, England uses the archaic spelling of "Registrary" for this office, and the office has considerably more administrative power. Registry has several meanings, all of which generally relate to its original or historical meaning as a written, official or formal record of information, or the place where such records are kept. ... The term college (Latin collegium) is most often used today to denote an educational institution. ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... High school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq... The Registrary is the senior administrative officer of the University of Cambridge. ...

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Medicine

In UK medicine, a registrar or Specialist registrar is a doctor in the process of advanced specialist training. Medicine is the branch of health science and the sector of public life concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, treatment and possible prevention of disease and injury. ... A specialist registrar is a doctor in the United Kingdom who is receiving advanced training in a specialist field of medicine in order to eventually become a consultant. ...

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Internet

On the Internet, a domain name registrar is a service that sells and manages domain names. A domain name registrar is a company accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to sell Internet domain names. ...


A drop registrar is a domain name registrar that exists solely to catch expiring internet domain names, for the purpose of selling them. Usually they work for a domain backorder service, and receive a percentage of the final auction price. A drop registrar is a domain name registrar that exists solely to catch expiring internet domain names, for the purpose of selling them. ... A domain name registrar is a company accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to sell Internet domain names. ... The Domain Name System or DNS is a system that stores information about host names and domain names in a kind of distributed database on networks, such as the Internet. ...

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Reliable Server Pooling

In Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool), a pool registrar (PR) or ENRP server or Name Server (NS) is responsible for managing a handlespace. RSerPool is the abbreviation for Reliable server pooling, a protocol framework for the management of and access to server pools. ...


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ICANN | Registrar Accreditation Agreement (4439 words)
Registrar is hereby granted a non-exclusive worldwide license to state during the term of this Agreement that it is accredited by ICANN as a registrar in the.com,.net, and.org TLDs.
Registrar shall not represent to any actual or potential SLD holder that Registrar enjoys access to a registry for which Registrar is accredited that is superior to that of any other registrar accredited for that registry.
Registrar shall not insert or renew any SLD name in any registry for which Registrar is accredited by ICANN in a manner contrary to an ICANN-adopted policy stating a list or specification of excluded SLD names that is in effect at the time of insertion or renewal.
Office of the University Registrar (143 words)
The Office of the University Registrar is the official source for all student academic records.
For students enrolled in professional schools, registration is decentralized and handled by individual school registrars.
Other functions handled by the University Registrar's office include collection and entry of grades and grade changes, publication of semester course offerings and final examination schedules, grade reporting, classroom scheduling, ad hoc reporting, and fulfilling many types of requests for student information.
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