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

Fewer Letters	More Letters
CA	(SSL) Certificate Authority
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
ISP	Internet Service Provider
NAT	Network Address Translation
ULA	Unique Local Address (non-routable local address, IPv6)
nginx	Popular HTTP server

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