US 2019/0379636 A1Published application

Method for a losing registrar to tranfer a domain name from the losing registrat to a gaining registrar

AssigneeGo Daddy Operating Company, LLC

InventorsSarah Phoenix, Arun Krishnasamy, Raja Ravi Teja Panidepu, Brian Kirsten, Kevin Allendorf, Karen Munoz, Chitra Yarlagadda, Tanmay Patil

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Abstract

A registrant, after registering a domain name at a losing registrar, may request at a gaining registrar that the domain name be transferred to the gaining registrar. The gaining registrar may verify that the domain name is registered to the registrant, available for transfer and the person requesting the transfer is in fact the registrant. The gaining registrar may provide evidence that the registrant was authenticated to the losing registrar and request a registry to transfer the domain name to the gaining registrar. Upon the registry confirming the validity of the request with the losing registrar, the registry may transfer the domain name to the gaining registrar. This method allows the registrant to transfer the domain name, after registering the domain name at the losing registrar, to the gaining registrar entirely from the gaining registrar. In other words, the registrant does not need to communicate with the losing registrar during the transfer process of the domain name to the gaining registrar.

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising the steps of:

registering by a losing registrar a domain name to a registrant;
receiving and storing by the losing registrar a contact information for the registrant in a database;
receiving by the losing registrar a request from a gaining registrar for verification that the domain name registered to the registrant is available for transfer, wherein the losing registrar is a different registrar than the gaining registrar;
transmitting by the losing registrar a confirmation to the gaining registrar that the domain name registered to the registrant is available for transfer;
receiving by the losing registrar a request from the gaining registrar for the contact information for the registrant;
reading by the losing registrar from the database the contact information for the registrant;
transmitting by the losing registrar the contact information for the registrant to the gaining registrar;
receiving by the losing registrar a request for a transfer hold on the domain name registered to the registrant at the losing registrant;
triggered by receiving by the losing registrar the request for the transfer hold on the domain name, storing a lock on the domain name registered to the registrant in the database, wherein the lock on the domain name is configured to prevent the domain name from being transferred to any registrar other than the gaining registrar as part of this method;
receiving by the losing registrar a record from the gaining registrar verifying that the registrant has been authenticated by the gaining registrar through the use of the contact information for the registrant supplied by the losing registrar;
storing by the losing registrar the record from the gaining registrar in the database verifying that the registrant has been authenticated by the gaining registrar through the use of the contact information for the registrant supplied by the losing registrar;
receiving by the losing registrar a request from a registry for an acknowledgement of a transfer of the domain name from the losing registrar to the gaining registrar;
and
transmitting by the losing registrar to the registry the acknowledgement of the transfer of the domain name from the losing registrar to the gaining registrar, wherein the registrant, after registering the domain name at the losing registrar, initiates the transfer of the domain name from the losing registrar to the gaining registrar entirely from the gaining registrar and without the registrant directly communicating with the losing registrar.

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A method, comprising the steps of:

registering by a losing registrar a domain name to a registrant;
receiving and storing by the losing registrar an email address or a telephone number for the registrant in a database;
receiving by the losing registrar a request from a gaining registrar for verification that the domain name registered to the registrant is available for transfer, wherein the losing registrar is a different registrar than the gaining registrar;
receiving by the losing registrar from the registrant a command to remove a transfer lock from the domain name registered to the registrant;
transmitting by the losing registrar a confirmation to the gaining registrar that the domain name registered to the registrant is available for transfer;
receiving by the losing registrar a request from the gaining registrar for the email address or a telephone number for the registrant;
reading by the losing registrar from the database the email address or the telephone number for the registrant;
transmitting by the losing registrar the email address or the telephone number for the registrant to the gaining registrar;
receiving by the losing registrar a request for a transfer hold on the domain name registered to the registrant at the losing registrant;
triggered by receiving by the losing registrar the request for the transfer hold on the domain name, storing a lock on the domain name registered to the registrant in the database, wherein the lock on the domain name is configured to prevent the domain name from being transferred to any registrar other than the gaining registrar as part of this method;
receiving by the losing registrar a record from the gaining registrar verifying that the registrant has been authenticated by the gaining registrar through the use of the email address or the telephone number for the registrant supplied by the losing registrar;
storing by the losing registrar the record from the gaining registrar in the database verifying that the registrant has been authenticated by the gaining registrar through the use of the email address or the telephone number for the registrant supplied by the losing registrar;
receiving by the losing registrar a request from a registry for an acknowledgement of a transfer of the domain name from the losing registrar to the gaining registrar;
and
transmitting by the losing registrar to the registry the acknowledgement of the transfer of the domain name from the losing registrar to the gaining registrar.

12 more elements

A method, comprising the steps of:

registering by a losing registrar a domain name to a registrant;
receiving and storing by the losing registrar an email address and a telephone number for the registrant in a database;
receiving by the losing registrar from the registrant a command to remove a privacy service from the domain name registered to the registrant;
receiving by the losing registrar a request from a gaining registrar for verification that the domain name registered to the registrant is available for transfer, wherein the losing registrar is a different registrar than the gaining registrar;
transmitting by the losing registrar a confirmation to the gaining registrar that the domain name registered to the registrant is available for transfer;
receiving by the losing registrar a request from the gaining registrar for the email address and the telephone number for the registrant;
reading by the losing registrar from the database the email address and the telephone number for the registrant;
transmitting by the losing registrar the email address and the telephone number for the registrant to the gaining registrar;
receiving by the losing registrar a request for a transfer hold on the domain name registered to the registrant at the losing registrant;
triggered by receiving by the losing registrar the request for the transfer hold on the domain name, storing a lock on the domain name registered to the registrant in the database, wherein the lock on the domain name is configured to prevent the domain name from being transferred to any registrar other than the gaining registrar as part of this method;
receiving by the losing registrar a record from the gaining registrar verifying that the registrant has been authenticated by the gaining registrar through the use of the email address and the telephone number for the registrant supplied by the losing registrar;
storing by the losing registrar the record from the gaining registrar in the database verifying that the registrant has been authenticated by the gaining registrar through the use of the email address and the telephone number for the registrant supplied by the losing registrar;
receiving by the losing registrar a request from a registry for an acknowledgement of a transfer of the domain name from the losing registrar to the gaining registrar;
and
transmitting by the losing registrar to the registry the acknowledgement of the transfer of the domain name from the losing registrar to the gaining registrar.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/001,659Filed 6 Jun 2018
Published: 12 Dec 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

H04L 61/302
Name registration, generation or assignment: administrative registration, e.g. for domain names at internet corporation for assigned names and…
H04L 61/3025
Name registration, generation or assignment: domain name generation or assignment
H04L 61/301
Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames: name conversion
H04L 61/4511
Using standardised directories; using standardised directory access protocols: using domain name system [DNS]

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