Fictitious Domain Name Method, System, Product, and Apparatus

• US 20120278467A1
• Filed: 06/29/2012
• Published: 11/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MEC Management, LLC (Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota)
• Original Assignee: ESDR Network Solutions LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Schneider, Eric
• Granted Patent: US 8,612,565 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A DNS server receives a DNS query based on a predetermined syntax, with the DNS query having a domain name having a highest level domain (HLD). The DNS server uses a root zone file having a resource record to resolve the DNS query in response to determining that the HLD is a top level domain alias (TLDA) that is not an HLD registered in the DNS server. The resource record of the root zone file includes an IP address corresponding to a network resource that is configured to determine a namespace provider that can process the domain name having the TLDA.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a Domain Name System (DNS) server comprising a processing device configured to resolve a DNS query based on a predetermined syntax;

wherein the DNS query includes a domain name having a highest level domain (HLD);

wherein the DNS server is configured to use a root zone file having at least one resource record to facilitate the resolution of the DNS query in response to determining that the HLD is a top level domain alias (TLDA) that is not an HLD registered in the DNS server, and that the DNS query cannot be resolved in accordance with a set of registered domain names; and

wherein said resource record includes an Internet Protocol (IP) address and said IP address corresponds to a network resource configured to determine which namespace provider of a plurality of namespace providers is configured to process said domain name having said TLDA.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the DNS server is one of a single authoritative root server, alternative root server, or virtual inclusive root server.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the resource record comprises a wildcard resource record.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said network resource is configured to manage a virtual zero level domain (VZLD).

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the VZLD is an internet infrastructure domain managed from an “

.arpa”

top level domain.

6. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the VZLD is a primary virtual zero level domain (PVZLD).

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said namespace provider is a naming authority to at least one secondary virtual zero level domain (SVZLD), further comprising redirecting the domain name to the at least one SVZLD based on the network resource.

8. A method for resolving queries to a Domain Name System (DNS), the method comprising:

receiving a syntactically valid DNS query having a highest level domain name (HLD) at a DNS server;

generating a resolved target of the DNS query in conjunction with the DNS server by operatively communicating between a resolver and the DNS server; and

determining at the DNS server that the DNS query references a domain name that the DNS server cannot register in response to the HLD being a top level domain alias (TLDA) that is not an HLD registered in the DNS server, and in response thereto, accessing at least one resource record in a root zone file configured to provide information for resolving the syntactically valid DNS query by the DNS server; and

wherein said resource record includes an Internet Protocol (IP) address and the IP address corresponds to a network resource configured to determine which namespace provider of a plurality of namespace providers is configured to process said domain name having said TLDA.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the DNS server is one of a single authoritative root server, alternative root server, or virtual inclusive root server.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the resource record comprises a wildcard resource record.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein said network resource is configured to manage a virtual zero level domain (VZLD).

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the VZLD is an internet infrastructure domain managed from an “

.arpa”

top level domain.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the VZLD is a primary virtual zero level domain (PVZLD).

14. The method according to claim 8, wherein said namespace provider is a naming authority to at least one secondary virtual zero level domain (SVZLD), further comprising redirecting the domain name to the at least one SVZLD based on the network resource.

15. A computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving a syntactically valid DNS query having a highest level domain name (HLD) at a DNS server;

generating a resolved target of the DNS query in conjunction with the DNS server by operatively communicating between a resolver and the DNS server; and

determining at the DNS server that the DNS query references a domain name that the DNS server cannot register in response to the HLD being a top level domain alias (TLDA) that is not an HLD registered in the DNS server, and in response thereto, accessing at least one resource record in a root zone file configured to provide information for resolving the syntactically valid DNS query by the DNS server; and

wherein said resource record includes an Internet Protocol (IP) address and IP address corresponds to a network resource configured to determine which namespace provider of a plurality of namespace providers is configured to process said domain name having said TLDA.

16. The computer readable medium according to claim 15, wherein the resource record comprises a wildcard resource record.

17. The computer readable medium according to claim 15, wherein said network resource is configured to manage a virtual zero level domain (VZLD).

18. The computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the VZLD is an internet infrastructure domain managed from an “

.arpa”

top level domain.

19. The computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the VZLD is a primary virtual zero level domain (PVZLD).

20. The computer readable medium according to claim 15, wherein said namespace provider is a naming authority to at least one secondary virtual zero level domain (SVZLD), further comprising redirecting the domain name to the at least one SVZLD based on the network resource.