Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC

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Future Wei Technologies, Inc.

Go Daddy India Domains and Hosting Services Private Limited

Arnold Neil Blinn

Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer

Alexander G Gounares

Gary William Flake

Matthew Bret MacLaurin

Lili Cheng

Christopher Wellington Brumme

James R Larus

Michael J Connolly

Debi P Mishra

Thomas F Bergstraesser

Daniel S Glasser

Raymond Edward Ozzie

Amit Mital

Melora Zaner-Godsey

Ira L Snyder, Jr

Michael S Lorton

William Henry Gates, Iii

Thomas C Jones

Joseph N Coco

Don Gillett

Nitin Kumar Gupta

Michael Ari Cohen

Gregory J Stein

Marcus Peinado

Chandramohan Amyangot Thekkath

Rajasekhar Abburi

Dane Alexander Glasgow

Teresa Anne Martineau

Jeffrey R C Bell

David Rogers Treadwell, Iii

Donald Marcus Gillett

John A Dunning, Jr

Paul England

Kenneth Alan Lobb

Wei Jiang

Wei-Quiang Michael Guo

Nishant Dani

Iulian Doroftei Calinov

Raja Pazhanivel Perumal

John Darren Elliott

Rahul Mahajan

Cynthia M Hagan

Andrew Low Ah Kee

Galen Clyde Hunt

William J Bolosky

Mariusz Hieronim Jakubowski

Daniel B Cook

John L Manferdelli

Rafael Linden Sagula

Todd Alan Buiten

Jun Li

Judd Conrad Jacobs

Tracy K Ard

Pablo M Stern

Bernhard Kotzenberg

Trevor Traina

John D Roper

Steven D Copson

Peter H Brussard

Mark Ugar

Kathryn L Sparr

Ramaranthnam Venkatesan

Mitchell Dean Olson

Hai Ying (Vincent) Yu

Jacob Louis Brooks

John Basyl Kercheval

Sunil Gowda

Boyd Cannon Multerer

Neil Scott Fishman

Cesare John Saretto

Matthew S Augustine

Omar H Shahine

Thaddeus C Pritchett

Krishnamurthy Ganesan

Jerry K Koh

Emmanuel Jose Miranda-Steiner

Srivaths Badrinath Copparam

Karon Weber

Oliver Wallace

Christopher Ambler

Eric W Hebenstreit

Michael McLaughlin

Alina Vikutan

Greg A Marks

Justin Michael Harrison

Lu Wang

Guy Ellis

Brion Stone

Harsh Abhay Damania

Anna Elizabeth Goodman

Rebekah Gruver

Timothy S Gill

Lucius B C A Fleuchaus

Aubrey John Russell

Scott D Stacey

Brett Michael Spradling

Stuart James Dent

Brian E Arbogast

Michael S Bovich

Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network, running a DNS server, and configured to: receive, from a client computer, an electronic message encoding a DNS request; access, within a database, at least one DNS record comprising: a designation of the DNS server as an authoritative DNS server for the DNS request; and a resource record designating a secondary authoritative server running on a second server computer; transmit, to the client computer, a DNS result according to the first resource record; transmit, to the secondary authoritative server, a second electronic message encoding a DNS query according to the second resource record; receive, from the secondary authoritative server, a DNS query result; store the DNS query result within a cache stored within the server computer; and transmit, to the client computer, the DNS query result.

Delegating DNS records to additional providers

An Internet resource provider (IRP) may authenticate a user and, upon a successful authentication, allow the user to perform one or more actions on webpages that are within an account of the user. The IPR may store the most recent actions of the user in a temporary access code (TAC) database. If the user has a problem, the user may select a TAC button on a webpage within the account of the user. The IPR may generate a TAC, store the TAC in association with the recent activities of the user in the TAC database and transmit the TAC to the user. The user may contact and provide the TAC to a customer support service center. The customer support service center may authenticate the user based solely on the TAC and determine the one or more recent actions of the user in the TAC database. The customer support service center may provide assistance to the user based at least partially on the one or more recent actions of the user.

Domain name registrar database associating a temporary access code and an internet related activity of a user

A Domain Name System (DNS) provider that is not a registrar of a domain name may nonetheless request a registry (possibly via an API request from the registrar to the registry, or via a call directly to the registry) to alter a Delegation Signer (DS) record in a DNS parent zone or other data controlled by the registry. The registry preferably confirms that the DNS provider has control over a nameserver for the domain name. Using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), the DNS provider may sign the request with a private key and store the public key in a location that confirms the DNS provider has control over the domain name or over the nameservers for the domain name. After successfully confirming the DNS provider, the registrar or registry may change the DS record so that the domain name supports Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) or update other data with the registry.

DNS provider configuring a registry DNSSEC record

Website hosting provider database associating a temporary access code and an internet related activity of a user

A domain name registrar may suggest and/or allow a user to select one or more domain names registered to the user for on demand multifactor authentication. The user may select one or more protected activities that trigger the enhanced security for the selected domain name(s). The user may also enter a plurality of authenticatees, contact information for the authenticatees and a minimum number of authenticatees required to approve the one or more protected activities. The user and/or authenticatees may also enter at least two authentication methods for each authenticatee and corresponding correct responses. The selected domain names are thus protected from the protected activities until approved by a minimum number of authenticatees using at least a first authentication method and a second authentication method selected from different groups of 'what you know,' what you have' and 'what you are&#x201d; authentication methods.

Monitoring to trigger on demand multifactor authentication

Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: identify, within a data store: a web page including a script tag; a URL in the script tag referencing a location for a second server hosting a script file; and a first hash data in the script tag generated from the script file using a hash function algorithm. The server computer(s) execute a request that accesses the script file and a second hash generated from the script file and stored on the second server computer. If the second hash data does not match the first hash data, execution of the script tag is disabled, and a notification is generated.

Script verification using a hash

Systems and methods for creating custom domain name links are provided. At least one server communicatively coupled to a network receives a request to create a custom domain name link to a third party service. The request identifies a custom domain name. The at least one server retrieves, from a third party service link database, an entry for the third party service specifying how to create the custom domain name link for the third party service and he at least one server creates the custom domain name link in accordance with the entry retrieved from the third party service link database.

System and method for automatic configuration of domain names by third parties

Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: receive, from a sub domain registration settings control panel displayed on a client computer, a profit to be paid to a registrant if a sub domain associated with the domain name is registered, and store the profit to be paid in a database. The server(s) may also render a sub domain registration control panel and receive: a sub domain registration request; and an IP address directing HTTP requests to the sub domain and automatically insert the IP address into an A record or NS record in a zone file for the domain. The server(s) may then select the profit to be paid from the database and update a registrant user profile to include the profit to be paid.

Registering a tertiary domain with revenue sharing

A system and method for rendering web pages is presented. A request identifying a domain name and a web page is received by at least one server communicatively coupled to a network. A TXT record associated with the domain name is then retrieved by the at least one server and the TXT record is analyzed to identify one or more settings associated with the domain name or the web page. The web page is then rendered in accordance with the one or more settings into a rendered web page by the at least one server. Finally, the rendered web page is transmitted to a computer system using the network.

Lightweight web page generation

Automated method for on demand multifactor authentication

On demand multifactor authentication

Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: identify, within a data store: a web page including a script tag; and a URL in the script tag referencing a location for a second server hosting a script file. The server computer(s) execute a request that accesses the script file and a signature file generated by a private key, associated with the script file, and stored on the second server computer. If the signature file contains a signature that cannot be authenticated using the public key associated with the private key, execution of the script tag is disabled, and a notification is generated.

Script verification using a digital signature

A game is provided that may be run on a client device of a customer. The game identifies one or more registered domain names and generates one or more available domain names for use in the game. In preferred embodiments, all of the registered and available domain names are linked in some manner to the customer and/or are in one or more categories selected by the customer. The domain names may be displayed one at a time and in a mixed order to the customer. The customer may guess whether each displayed domain name is registered or available for registration. The customer may be provided the correct answer after each guess and a 'Results' page may display the results of all of the customer's guesses. The customer may be given the option at various points in the game to register any of the displayed and guessed upon available domain names. After registering one or more of the available domain names, the customer may be taken back into the game at the same point the customer left the game.

Game for guessing whether a name is registered or available for registration

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Hunts Point, WA, United States of America

Arnold Neil Blinn