Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
CGNAT	Carrier-Grade NAT
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol for email
ISP	Internet Service Provider
NAT	Network Address Translation
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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