US 2006/0218289 A1 · Systems and methods of registering and utilizing domain names

Abstract

The present invention provides methods and systems for registering unlimited non-ICANN top-level domain (TLD) names that are created on demand, and for utilizing them in a network environment in parallel with those specified by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) or other authority authorized to approve standardized top-level domain names. One embodiment of the present invention provides systems and methods for registering a non-ICANN TLD name by mapping it to an IP address using a predefined mapping function, assigning the resulting IP address to a server system that acts as the name server for TLD name, and subsequently using the said predefined function when a user enters an Internet address containing said TLD name on a client computer in order to compute the IP address of the said name server and access it. Further, one embodiment of the present invention is operable with proxy servers.

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Dependent claims

A method for using a top-level domain (TLD) name in an Internet address, the method comprising the following steps:

receiving a TLD name at a registration server;
translating said TLD name to a first IP address using a domain name translation software executing on said registration server;
binding said first IP address to a network interface on a name server computer (TLD NS);
receiving from a first computer program at a second computer program data corresponding to an Internet address including said TLD name;
translating said TLD name to said first IP address using said domain name translation software executed by said second computer program;
connecting to said TLD NS at said first IP address;
and
querying said TLD NS for a second IP address corresponding to the second label in said Internet address.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Systems and methods of registering and utilizing domain names

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