Domain name service resolver

A DNS resolver for returning IP addresses, the DNS resolver comprising:

• a connection with an Internet application or device, wherein the connection receives domain name resolution requests that originates outside of the Internet;
• a recursing DNS resolver, wherein IP addresses are found by querying one or more DNS servers on the Internet after receiving domain name resolution requests;
• a direct DNS resolver that processes domain name resolutions that authoritatively identifies an IP addresses, wherein the direct DNS resolver avoids referring to the Internet while processing domain name resolutions, and wherein the authoritatively identified IP addresses are uninfluenced by other DNS resolvers;
• an address store, wherein the address store comprises a predetermined list of URL portions that are determined at a point accessible with the Internet, wherein the DNS resolver processes the domain name resolutions for the predetermined list of URL portions differently than domain name resolutions for other URL portions not on the predetermined list of URL portions.

A method for resolving an IP address for a domain name resolution request, the method comprising steps of:

• receiving, in a non-recursive manner, a list of possible domain name resolution requests and corresponding IP addresses in advance of the possible domain name resolution request being requested;
• storing the list in an authoritative address store;
• receiving the domain name resolution request;
• determining if the domain name resolution request corresponds to any on the list;
• and
• processing the domain name resolutions request to identify a corresponding IP address, wherein the processing depends on whether the domain name resolution request corresponds to any on the list,
• wherein the domain name resolution request is resolved by referring to the Internet using a recursing resolver that queries one or more DNS servers on the Internet when the domain name resolution request does not correspond to any on the list.