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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2009
Alexander D. Holmes, Sterling, VA (US);
Andrew W. Simpson, Sterling, VA (US);
Karthik Shyamsunder, Winchester, VA (US);
Srinivas Sunkara, Ashburn, VA (US);
Eyal Lanxner, Kfar Saba, IL;
Nir Zohar, Sfar Saba, IL;
Leonard Orentas, South Riding, VA (US);
Matt Larson, Dulles, VA (US);
Mark Kosters, Clifton, VA (US);
Shevek Mankin, Dulles, VA (US);
Tamir Kamara, Neve Yamin, IL;
Alexander D. Holmes, Sterling, VA (US);
Andrew W. Simpson, Sterling, VA (US);
Karthik Shyamsunder, Winchester, VA (US);
Srinivas Sunkara, Ashburn, VA (US);
Eyal Lanxner, Kfar Saba, IL;
Nir Zohar, Sfar Saba, IL;
Leonard Orentas, South Riding, VA (US);
Matt Larson, Dulles, VA (US);
Mark Kosters, Clifton, VA (US);
Shevek Mankin, Dulles, VA (US);
Tamir Kamara, Neve Yamin, IL;
Verisign, Inc., Reston, VA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for scoring a domain web traffic based on DNS traffic requests received at an authoritative name server to resolve the domain name. A request to resolve the domain name is received at an authoritative name server. A counter, such as a server counter or a hit counter, for the domain name is incremented based on the received request. A score, such as a domain traffic score or a domain rank, is calculated based upon a count of the counter. Calculating the score may also include applying a weighting factor to the counters based on information about a requesting set of resolvers and other domains/websites that may be linking and driving traffic to the domain whose traffic score is being calculated. Examples of relevant set of resolvers information may include location, traffic levels, traffic type and architecture of the set of resolvers.