Definitions for "Delegated"
A company acts through its directors. The authority of individual directors and of officers, employees and others who need to be able to commit the company is delegated down from the Board either explicitly or implicitly. Third parties may be able to rely on the ostensible authority of officers even if they exceed restrictions on their delegated authority.
Assigned duties or responsibilities to another.
Assigned to a registry organization/administrator and activated on the Internet (released in the root zone). Of the 243 ccTLDs, 194 have been delegated; of these, 184 are active and 10 are closed. (as of April 2001.)