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Patent No.:

US 9769035 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 05, 2014

Domain popularity scoring

Applicant:

Verisign, Inc., Reston, VA (US);

Inventors:

Alexander D. Holmes, Sterling, VA (US);

Andrew W. Simpson, Sterling, VA (US);

Karthik Shyamsunder, Winchester, VA (US);

Srinivas Sunkara, Ashburn, VA (US);

Eyal Lanxner, Modiin, IL;

Nir Zohar, Netanya, IL;

Leonard Orentas, South Riding, VA (US);

Matt Larson, Reston, VA (US);

Mark Kosters, Clifton, VA (US);

Shevek Mankin, Cupertino, CA (US);

Tamir Kamara, Yamin, IL;

Assignee:

VERISIGN, INC., Reston, VA (US);

Attorney:

MH2 Technology Law Group, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Farzana Huq

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/04 (2013.01); G06Q 30/00 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0273 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0277 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0282 (2013.01); H04L 29/12066 (2013.01); H04L 43/062 (2013.01); H04L 61/1511 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for scoring a domain including analyzing counter data and information obtained from a web site associated with the domain. Methods may include receiving requests to resolve the domain at an authoritative domain resolution server. A counter may be incremented for the domain based on the received requests. Information may be obtained from a web page associated with the domain. For example, obtaining information from the web page may include obtaining quantitative, qualitative, and/or functional information from the web page, such as link information, a status of network links corresponding to the link information, and associated ratios. The status of link information may include searching for functional details and/or results, such as, domain redirections, domain errors, mirror content, and commonly linked sites. A score may be calculated for the domain based upon the counter data and the information obtained from the web page associated with the domain.

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