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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2001
Len Albert Bayles, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Len Albert Bayles, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
SnapNames.com Inc., Portland, OR (US);
Abstract
A preferred embodiment of the present invention integrates a domain name monitoring and acquisition service with a registry system. The monitoring and acquisition service can receive a request from a registrar to acquire a domain name. The monitoring and acquisition service also can receive a pending delete notification from the registry for a domain name having a registration that is about to be deleted. The pending delete notification can be received before the registry issues a public delete notification or purges the domain name, at which point the domain name is registrable by the first-responding registrar. If the domain name that is the subject of the pending delete notification has a corresponding acquisition request received by the monitoring and acquisition service, the monitoring and acquisition service can request acquisition of the domain name for the requesting registrar.