Method and apparatus for conducting domain name service
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Abstract
A method for conducting Internet domain name service to users connected to the Internet comprises an automated procedure for transferring Internet domain name service from a domain name owner to a domain name manager. This method further comprises Internet sub-domain name services to prospective buyers based on domain names transferred to the domain name manager. Messages requesting domain name service, including requests from domain name owners to sub-license their particular domain name to prospective sub-domain name buyers and from prospective sub-domain name buyers to license available sub-domain names, are received and responded to by an automated domain name management system. This automated domain name management system further comprises an interactive website which includes a database, search engine, and Web server.
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37 Claims
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20. A method for assigning domain names configured according to a domain name system, each domain name including a user selected subdomain label to the left of a fully-qualified domain name, the method comprising:
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communicating with domain name servers to effect reassignment of name service records for fully-qualified domain names belonging to a plurality of domain name holders, whereby the fully-qualified domain names are pointed to at least one IP address of a subdomain management system;
accessing a database of subdomain labels for the fully-qualified domain names, wherein each subdomain label is not associated with an IP address in the name service records, the database relating each subdomain label to a user-determinable address for content and to at least one of the fully-qualified domain names; and
communicating with network users to relate via the database user selected subdomain labels with user selected ones of the fully-qualified domain names to provide domain names, each domain name comprising a fully-qualified domain name and at least one subdomain label to the left of the fully-qualified domain name, wherein the subdomain management system belongs to a separate entity from the domain name holders and the users. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A system for aggregating a plurality of fully-qualified domain names for independent licensing of subdomain labels related thereto, each domain name including a user selected subdomain label to the left of a fully-qualified domain name, comprising:
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a subdomain management system, comprising a server connected to a network and operably associated with a database and with a memory, the memory holding instructions for;
communicating with domain name servers to effect reassignment of name service records for fully-qualified domain names belonging to a plurality of domain name holders, whereby the fully-qualified domain names are pointed to at least one IP address of the subdomain management system;
accessing the database of subdomain labels for the fully-qualified domain names, wherein each subdomain label is not associated with an IP address in the name service records, the database relating each subdomain label to a user-determinable address for content and to at least one of the fully-qualified domain names; and
communicating with network users to relate via the database user selected subdomain labels with user selected ones of the fully-qualified domain names to provide domain names, each domain name comprising a fully-qualified domain name and at least one subdomain label to the left of the fully-qualified domain name, wherein the subdomain management system belongs to a separate entity from the domain name holders and the users. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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