Fictitious domain name method, system, product, and apparatus

• US 8,612,565 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2012
• Issued: 12/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Tiv, Backhean
• Application Number:
  US13/538,433
• Publication Number:
  US 20120278467A1
• Time in Patent Office: 536 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/219, 709/223, 709/227, 709/244
• 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;

wherein said resource record includes an Internet Protocol (IP) address and said IP address corresponds to a network resource different from the DNS server and configured to determine which namespace provider of a plurality of namespace providers is configured to resolve said domain name having said TLDA;

wherein the DNS server is further configured to redirect the domain name to the namespace provider of the plurality of namespace providers based on the network resource.

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. 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 different from the DNS server and configured to determine which namespace provider of a plurality of namespace providers is configured to resolve said domain name having said TLDA;

wherein the method further comprises the DNS server redirecting the domain name to the namespace provider of the plurality of namespace providers based on the network resource.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the DNS server is one of a single authoritative root server, alternative root server, or virtual inclusive root server.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the resource record comprises a wildcard resource record.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein said network resource is configured to manage a virtual zero level domain (VZLD).

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the VZLD is an internet infrastructure domain managed from an “

.arpa”

top level domain.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the VZLD is a primary virtual zero level domain (PVZLD).

13. A non-transitory 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 different from the DNS server and configured to determine which namespace provider of a plurality of namespace providers is configured to resolve said domain name having said TLDA;

wherein the operations further comprise the DNS server redirecting the domain name to the namespace provider of the plurality of namespace providers based on the network resource.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 13, wherein the resource record comprises a wildcard resource record.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 13, wherein said network resource is configured to manage a virtual zero level domain (VZLD).

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 15, wherein the VZLD is an internet infrastructure domain managed from an “

.arpa”

top level domain.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 15, wherein the VZLD is a primary virtual zero level domain (PVZLD).