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Any information on what is NIC supposed to stand for here? Because it's certainly not Network Interface Controller.

The other thing that stands out to me, and not in a good way, is the "%8" instead of "8%" in the example screenshot (meanwhile, the upload progress syas "100%".)

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I first thought of (NIC) as in Network Information Center... which is commonly used for Domain Registars names, i.e. InterNIC or DirectNIC.

As this seems like a service that's searching and storing information, I can see it kinda acting like DNS and this place being the registrar of information.

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