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US 9,002,984 B2Granted
Direct domain software and file access computer system
AssigneeGo Daddy Operating Company, LLC
InventorsRobert Parsons, Warren Adelman, Michael Chadwick, Eric Wagner
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Abstract
Systems and methods of the present invention allow for a portal website further comprising an online community, storage areas, additional software, email access, etc. accessible via a direct access domain or links which manipulate a domain name to allow a registrant to access a remote computer or server in a hosting provider's data center.
Claims18
A method comprising the steps of:
- a. hosting, on one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network, a portal website resolving, after authentication, from a domain name registered to a registrant, wherein the portal website comprises one or more portal web pages and wherein the one or more portal web pages comprise a portal management web page configured to personalize the one or more portal web pages and a community web page configured to access an online community comprising one or more online software vendors;
- b. receiving from the registrant a selection of one or more online software applications available from the online community, wherein the one or more software vendors host the one or more software applications;
- c. receiving from the registrant, via one or more data entry fields on the portal management webpage, a sub domain selected by the registrant and a uniform resource locator to the one or more online software applications, wherein the portal website is updated to include a link to the one or more online software applications;
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- d. displaying the one or more online software applications on the portal website responsive to the registrant entering the sub domain concatenated to the domain name into a web browser on a client computer.
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