LOCALIZED AND CULTURAL DOMAIN NAME SUGGESTION

• US 20120096019A1
• Filed: 03/15/2011
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: VeriSign, Inc.
• Original Assignee: VeriSign, Inc.
• Inventors: MANICKAM, Ramesh Kumar, Maheshwari, Manish Kumar, Tadose, Ashishkumar Namdev
• Application Number:
  US13/048,340
• Publication Number:
  US 20120096019A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/767
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/302 Administrative registration, e.g. for domain names at internet corporation for assigned names and numbers [ICANN]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/3025 Domain name generation or assignment

Abstract

Suggested domain names are generated based upon regional, cultural and other information received from a user. The user input is correlated against terms in a localized name suggestion database to identify terms that are regionally and/or culturally relevant to the user. Candidate domain names are generated based upon the user input, the terms derived from the database and related terms such as synonyms. The candidate localized names that are available for registration are sent to the user, which can select one or more to be registered.

Claims

1. A system for generating alternative candidate domain names for registration, comprising:

a receiver;

a localized name suggestion database that includes at least one record that correlates a localized term with one or more attributes including at least one from the group of;

a business name, a business category, a region, a cultural designation and a keyword provided by a user;

a query module in communication with the receiver and the localized name suggestion database that receives user input from the receiver, formulates at least one query based upon the user input, sends the query to the localized name suggestion database and receives a response containing at least one localized term from the database;

a name composer subsystem that receives at least one localized term and user input from the query module and generates a candidate domain name based upon the localized term and the user input;

a prioritization module that receives a plurality of candidate domain names from the name composer subsystem and prioritizes the candidate names based at least upon the lengths of the candidate domain names;

an availability engine that receives at least one candidate domain name from the prioritization module and determines if the name is available for registration; and

a transmitter that receives an available candidate domain name from the availability engine and causes the name to be sent to the user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the localized term is a transliteration of a term provided by the user.

3. A method for generating candidate domain names, comprising:

receiving input from a user that includes at least one from the group of;

a business name, a business category, a region, a cultural designation and a keyword provided by the user;

querying a localized name suggestion database based upon the user input, wherein the localized name suggestion database includes at least one record that correlates a term with at least one of a regional or cultural designation and at least one attribute;

identifying a localized term that is relevant to the user input by correlating the regional or cultural designation provided by the user with the cultural or regional designation contained in a record containing the term and correlating at least one from the group of a business name, a business category and a keyword provided by a user with at least one attribute contained in the record;

receiving a response that includes at least one localized term from the localized name suggestion database;

generating at least one candidate domain name based upon the user input and the localized term;

determining if the at least one a candidate domain name is available to be registered; and

if the name is available to be registered, causing the name to be sent to the user.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the localized term is a transliteration of a term provided by the user.

5. A method comprising:

receiving input from a user;

identifying a localized term based upon the user input;

generating at least one candidate domain name based upon the user input and the localized term;

determining if the at least one candidate domain name is available to be registered; and

if the name is available to be registered, causing the name to be sent to the user.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the user input includes at least one from the group of:

a business name, a business category, a region, a cultural designation and a keyword provided by the user.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising querying a localized name suggestion database based upon the user input to identify a record that correlates the localized term with the user input.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of identifying the localized term comprises:

correlating a regional or cultural designation provided by the user with a cultural or regional designation contained in a database record containing the term; and

correlating at least one from the group of a business name, a business category and a keyword provided by a user with at least one attribute contained in the record.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the localized term is a transliteration of a term provided by the user.

10. A domain name suggestion system comprising:

a localized name suggestion database that includes at least one record that correlates a localized term with one or more attributes including at least one from the group of;

a business name, a business category, a region, a cultural designation and a keyword provided by a user;

a query module in communication with the localized name suggestion database that receives user input, formulates at least one query based upon the user input, sends the query to the localized name suggestion database and receives a response containing at least one localized term from the database;

a name composer subsystem that receives at least one localized term and user input from the query module and generates a candidate domain name based upon the localized term and the user input; and

a user interface that provides the candidate domain name to the user.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising:

a prioritization module that receives a plurality of candidate domain names from the name composer subsystem and prioritizes the candidate names based at least upon the lengths of the candidate domain names.

12. The system of claim 10, further comprising:

an availability engine that receives at least one candidate domain name and determines if the name is available for registration.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the localized term is a transliteration of a term provided by the user.

14. A system substantially as described and shown.

15. A method substantially as described and shown.