GEOGRAPHIC DOMAIN NAME SUGGESTION TOOLS

• US 20120272172A1
• Filed: 04/22/2011
• Published: 10/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company LLC (GoDaddy, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Go Daddy Group Incorporated (GoDaddy, Inc.)
• Inventors: Nicks, Paul, Dicker, Adam, Bacus, Robert
• Application Number:
  US13/092,254
• Publication Number:
  US 20120272172A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/69 using geographic information, e.g. room number
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/3025 Domain name generation or assignment

Abstract

Systems and methods of the present invention provide for displaying, suggesting and registering available domain names on a client computer based on selected geographical locations from online mapping service software or a geo-location software. Any combination of an online mapping software and a domain name registration software may receive a selection of one or more geographical locations within a displayed geographical area. Alternatively, a location of a client computer may be detected using the geo-location software. One or more available domain names may be parsed for keywords related to the selected geographical area, and one or more available domain names may be suggested based on the selected keywords.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a) one or more client software applications on one or more client computers wherein the one or more client computers are communicatively coupled to the network and wherein the one or more client software applications are configured to;

i) display an online mapping software, wherein the online mapping software is used in combination with a domain name registration software hosted on one or more server computers communicatively coupled to the network; and

ii) receive a selection of one or more geographical locations within a geographical area of the online mapping software;

b) one or more servers in one or more data centers comprising one or more server software modules, wherein the one or more servers are communicatively coupled to a network and wherein the one or more server software modules are configured to;

i) parse one or more available domain names for one or more keywords related to the one or more geographical locations;

ii) receive from the client computer a keyword selection comprising at least one of the one or more keywords and a top level domain, wherein the one or more keywords and one or more top level domains are displayed on the client computer; and

iii) receiving from the client computer a domain name selection comprising at least one of the one or more available domain names displayed on the client computer; and

c) a domain name registration website hosted on one or more server computers in a registrar data center, wherein the domain name registration website is configured to register the one or more domain names responsive to the domain name selection.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the one or more geographical locations comprise continents, countries, states, regions, counties, cities, areas, neighborhoods, individual residences or any combination thereof.

3. The system of claim 1 further comprising a zoom function displayed on the online mapping software to select and display the geographical area encompassing the one or more geographical locations.

4. The system of claim 1 further comprising a user interface input configured to display the one or more geographical locations on the online mapping software, the domain name registration software, or any combination thereof responsive to a user inputting at least one of the one or more geographical locations into the user interface input.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the user interface input comprises a textbox, a checkbox or a drop down list.

6. The system of claim 1 further comprising a user interface input displayed on the online mapping software, the domain name registration software, or any combination thereof configured to receive one or more spinning keywords.

7. The system of claim 1 further comprising a user interface control comprising the one or more keywords and displayed on the online mapping software, the domain name registration software, or any combination thereof at coordinates appropriate to the one or more geographical locations.

8. The system of claim 1 further comprising a user interface control configured to display exact matches between the one or more available domain names and the selection of the one or more geographical locations.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein, responsive to the selection of the one or more geographical locations not having any corresponding available domain names, the online mapping software, the domain name registration software, or any combination thereof displays the one or more available domain names for the one or more geographical locations in close proximity to the selection of the one or more geographical locations.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein the one or more available domain names include one or more dashes, one or more underlines or one or more additional words appended to the one or more keywords.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein one or more user interface controls are displayed for each of the one or more geographical locations displayed within the geographical area on the online mapping software, the domain name registration software, or any combination thereof.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the one or more user interface controls are displayed responsive to a user clicking on each of the one or more geographical locations.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein the one or more user interface controls are configured to select the one or more geographical locations, one or more top level domains, the one or more geographical locations combined with the one or more top level domains, one or more spinning keywords or any combination thereof.

14. The system of claim 1 further comprising a link or a button displayed on the client computer and configured to register the one or more available domain names responsive to the domain name selection.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein activating the link or a button causes a domain name registration web page, within a registrar website hosted on one or more servers in a registrar data center, to display on the client computer, wherein the domain name registration web page is pre-filled with the domain name selection.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the page is prefilled using information transmitted by a query string or hidden HTML fields passed to the registrar website.

17. A system, comprising:

a) one or more client software applications on one or more client computers wherein the one or more client computers are communicatively coupled to the network and wherein the one or more client software applications are configured to display, on an online mapping software, a location of the client computer, wherein the location of the client computer is determined by a geo-location software on the client computer and wherein the online mapping software is used in combination with a domain name registration software hosted on a server computer communicatively coupled to the network;

b) one or more servers in one or more data centers comprising one or more server software modules, wherein the one or more servers are communicatively coupled to a network and wherein the one or more server software modules are configured to;

i) receive the location of the client computer from the geo-location software;

ii) parse one or more available domain names for one or more keywords related to the location of the client computer;

iii) receive from the client computer a keyword selection comprising at least one of the one or more keywords and a top level domain, wherein the one or more keywords and one or more top level domains are displayed on the client computer; and

iv) receiving from the client computer a domain name selection comprising at least one of the one or more available domain names displayed on the client computer; and

c) a domain name registration website hosted on one or more server computers in a registrar data center, wherein the domain name registration website is configured to register the one or more domain names responsive to the domain name selection.