Methods for suggesting domain names from a geographic location data

• US 9,002,926 B2
• Filed: 04/22/2011
• Issued: 04/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company LLC (GoDaddy, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company LLC (GoDaddy, Inc.)
• Inventors: Nicks, Paul, Dicker, Adam, Bacus, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Dhairya A
• Application Number:
  US13/092,230
• Publication Number:
  US 20120271877A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,446 Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/69 using geographic information, e.g. room number
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/3025 Domain name generation or assignment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols

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 method, comprising the steps of:

A) receiving, by a server computer communicatively coupled to a network, a geographic location data identifying a plurality of place names, wherein

the geographic location data comprises a geographic location within a geographic area,

the geographic area comprises a planet, a continent, a country, a state, a region, a county, a city, an area, or a neighborhood,

the geographic location comprises a continent, a country, a state, a region, a county, a city, an area, a neighborhood, a residence or a business within the geographic area and identified as local to the geographic location data,

the geographic location data comprises a geographic location selection comprising a text string received from an online map software, or a geographic location received from, and displayed and selected within, a geographic area of a map rendered by the online map software,

and the map software is configured to render a map of the geographic location within the geographic area, and zoom to a different geographic area comprising at least one geographic location;

B) parsing, by the server computer, each place name in the plurality of place names into at least one keyword;

C) identifying, by the server computer, in a database communicatively coupled to the network, a plurality of domain names, each of the plurality of domain names being available for registration;

D) determining, by the server computer, whether each domain name in the plurality of domain names comprises a keyword parsed from the plurality of place names; and

E) for each domain name in the plurality of domain names that comprises the keyword parsed from the plurality of place names;

i) identifying, by the server computer, coordinates at which a place associated with the place name from which the keyword was parsed is displayed on a map graphic;

ii) generating, by the server computer, a user interface component configured to receive input from a user;

iii) rendering, by the server computer;

a) the domain name within the user interface component; and

b) the user interface component on the map graphic at the coordinates; and

iv) transmitting, by the server computer, to a client computer communicatively coupled to the network, the map graphic comprising the user interface component at the coordinates.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the geographic location data comprises a geographic location identified within a plurality of data received from a geo location software.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one keyword comprises an address or a name of a business identified as local to the geographic location data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one keyword comprises a residential address.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the geographic location data further comprises at least one additional keyword.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising the steps of:

determining, by the server computer, whether each domain name in the plurality of domain names comprises a keyword parsed from the plurality of place names and the at least one additional keyword.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least one additional keyword comprises a user-chosen, industry-specific keyword.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least one additional keyword comprises a name, a manger or an address of a business identified as local to geographic location data.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least one additional keyword comprises a residential address identified as local to the geographic location data.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein step E) further comprises the steps of:

v) receiving, by the server computer, a selected available domain name from the user interface component;

vi) rendering, by the server computer, a domain name registration web page configured to register the selected available domain name with a registrar; and

vii) transmitting, by the server computer, the domain name registration page to the client computer.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein:

i) the selected available domain name includes at least one registrant data about a user that selected the selected available domain name; and

ii) a rendering of the domain name registration web page comprises;

a) the selected available domain name; and

b) the at least one registrant data.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising the steps of:

viii) receiving, by the server computer, from the domain name registration web page, a request to register the selected available domain name; and

ix) registering, by the server computer, the domain name.