Euro Convergence, Sarl

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Jay Westerdal

Paul Stahura

Raymond King

The present invention provides a new and improved domain name searching method and system which comprises steps selected from the group consisting of (1) downloading all zone files, public and/or non-public, associated with one or more host names; (2) performing reverse DNS on IPs associated with said host names in associated root servers and name servers; (3) crawling websites associated with said host names and seeking new hosts on known websites in different TLDs; (4) indexing all new host names found; (5) resolving the associated IP address with each host name, and with optionally appending 'www' thereby; (6) storing DNS entries and indexing same while logging their association with host names; (7) repeating any of steps (1) through (6) one or more times.

Reverse IP method and system

A system and method for collecting internet publisher data is disclosed in which metadata pertaining to the internet publisher is acquired in the context of a trusted relationship with the internet publisher to increase reliability of metadata utilized in the presentation of internet search engine results. In a preferred embodiment, metadata collected by an internet domain registrar incident to registration of an internet domain name is included among metadata acquired in the trusted relationship.

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Bellevue, WA, United States of America

Jay Westerdal