Afilias Limited

Shuqin Sun

Michael Runcieman

Hui Zhou

Jimmy Lam

Steven Singer

A method for coordinating transactions for domain names to register a plurality of domain names with a domain name portfolio stored in a storage, such that each of the domain names in a plurality of domain names belongs to only the domain name portfolio as a unique member of the domain name portfolio; associate a portfolio account with the domain name portfolio, the portfolio account configured for managing a pool of funds available for use in payment of the transactions for said each of the domain names of the plurality of domain names; receive credit payment instructions attributed to the portfolio account, the credit payment instructions containing a credit payment amount; record the credit payment amount against the pool of funds in order to increase a level of the pool of funds; receive debit payment instructions associated with a domain name of the domain name portfolio and domain name transaction information associated with the transaction for the domain name; record the debit payment amount against the pool of funds in order to decrease the level of the pool of funds; and generate and send a periodic report over the network detailing the level of the pool of funds and the transaction applied against two or more of the domain names as members of the domain name portfolio.

Coordinating transactions for domain names administered using a domain name portfolio

A method for synchronizing management of a plurality of domain names in a Domain Name System (DNS), which method comprises: receiving a synchronization request for synchronizing a first object related to a first renewal date of a first domain name with a second object related to a second renewal date of a second domain name, the synchronization request including an explicit identifier only of the first domain name but not of the second domain name; locate both the first object and the second object in a domain name database; determining a renewal date which is earlier than at least one of the first renewal date and the second renewal date; and synchronizing as a backwards synchronization operation the first object and the second object to both have said renewal date, such that both the first domain name and the second domain name are configured to expire on said renewal date.

Domain name registration and management for renewal date synchronization

A method for distributing a domain name to one of a plurality of registrars, in communication with a drop zone server, the method executing stored instructions by a computer processor to: recognize a delete command of the domain name; determine if the delete command is inside or outside of an Add Grace Period (AGP), the AGP defined as a period of time post registration of the domain name by a registrar; if the delete command is inside of the AGP, then send the domain name to the drop zone server in a path that bypasses a delete queue for subsequent purchase by said one of the plurality of registrars; or if the delete command is outside of the AGP, then send the domain to the delete queue.

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Shuqin Sun