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• the present invention relates to a service execution method and system for registration of domain names using vernaculars in non-English speaking countries, in which peoples in the non-English speaking countries, which are unable to compete with those in English speaking countries in terms of the security of domain names necessary to the creation of Web sites, can re-create and secure their domain names based on vernaculars, having meanings substantially identical with those previously registered in English, and each Internet user can access a desired site directly without using a search window in a search browser, by typing a known site name in a URL window in his vernacular and then entering it, so that the peoples in the non-English speaking countries can benefit from the Internet use on equal terms with those in the English speaking countries.
• All computers connected to the Internet are assigned respective unique numbers each being yielded through a 32-bit numerical combination. Such a unique number is used as an identification number of an associated individual computer, which is called an Internet address.
• the Internet address is partitioned into four groups, each of which is composed of eight bits and distinguished from the others by a dot. Each group may be represented by any one among numerals of 0 to 255, which is produced by an 8- bit possible combination. It is called an authorized Internet protocol (IP) address.
• IP Internet protocol
• representing Internet addresses only in a large number of numerals in the above manner results in considerable confusion and difficulty in understanding or memorizing an Internet address of a specific Web site. For this reason, there is a need to convert an Internet address into a system easy to understand and remember, using a combination of character strings. Such a system is called a domain name.
• interNIC administers .com, .net, .org, etc., and KRNIC and JPNIC are authorized to administer .kr and .jp, respectively.
• the number of registerable domain addresses may be 2 32 due to possible 32-bit combinations. Although billions of distinct domain addresses are possible theoretically, the nature of the Internet limits the number of domain names actually usable, in terms of their popularity and easiness to access. Such domain names are now mainly owned by advanced countries or leading enterprises.
• Hangul Korean language
• Hangul Korean language
• Most non-English users in the non-English speaking communities have an English letter typing rate inferior to a vernacular typing rate, resulting in inefficient utilization for the Internet.
• the incorrect translation of words used in non-English speaking communities into English may have such a wide range of error as to induce the incorrectness of a domain name in the URL requiring a complete match of the domain name with a registered one. This, in turn, results in the occurrence of an error in a DNS search.
• each Internet user can access a desired site by typing a known site name in a search window in his vernacular (non- English language) and then entering it.
• a vernacular-based search site has a database containing information based on a native language of an associated country.
• the search site retrieves all domain names associated with the entered word from the database and displays the retrieved domain names, thereby allowing each Internet user to select a desired one ofthe displayed domain names and access a site ofthe selected domain name.
• an entered word is regarded as a wild card word and, therefore, innumerable domain names, including a domain name of the specific Web site, are often searched.
• it is difficult to find a desired Web site among a large number of searched sites leading to a significant reduction in search efficiency and an increase in search time with an increase in the number of clicking times.
• an object of the present invention is to provide a service execution method and system for registration of domain names using vernaculars in non-English speaking countries, in which peoples in the non- English speaking countries, which are unable to compete with those in English speaking countries in terms of the security of domain names necessary to the creation of Web sites, can re-create and secure their domain names based on vernaculars, having meanings substantially identical with those previously registered in English, so that Internet domain names presently in saturation can be re-created as different alternatives thereto respectively by several ten kinds of keyboards.
• Another object of the present invention is to provide a service execution method and system for registration of domain names using vernaculars in non- English speaking countries, in which peoples in the non-English speaking countries can benefit from Internet use on equal terms such as an equal Internet using speed with those in English speaking countries.
• a further object of the present invention is to provide a service execution method and system for registration of domain names using vernaculars in non- English speaking countries, in which the domain names are systemically guided and maintained to prevent the production of sites being in name but not in reality.
• Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a service execution method and system for registration of domain names using vernaculars in non- English speaking countries, in which peoples in non-English speaking countries, including a Hangul speaking zone, can use E-mail addresses and homepage addresses created using their vernaculars or iconized using special-purposed symbols assigned respectively to numerical keys on keyboards, thereby making it easy to recognize and remember the E-mail addresses and homepage addresses.
• a provision of a method for registering domain names using vernaculars in non-English speaking countries comprising the first step of recognizing that a computer of a user connects to a vernacular sub-domain Web site directly or through a main domain Web site and selects a vernacular domain name registration service to request registration of a domain name based on a vernacular ofthe user; the second step of running a plug-in program to automatically produce an arrangement of English characters corresponding to the vernacular-based domain name, if the vernacular domain name registration service is selected; and the third step of determining whether the produced English character arrangement has already been registered as an existing domain name and, unless the produced English character arrangement has already been registered, registering it as the vernacular-based domain name and notifying the user ofthe registered result.
• Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a service execution system for registration of domain names using vernaculars in non-English speaking countries according to the present invention
• Fig. 2 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a service execution method for registration of domain names using vernaculars in non-English speaking countries according to the present invention
• Fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of registering a vernacular domain name according to the present invention
• Fig. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of searching for a Web site using a vernacular according to the present invention
• Fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of registering a vernacular E- mail address according to the present invention
• Fig. 6 is a view illustrating an initial screen layout of a Web site using Hangul, which is one of main portal sites for providing a vernacular domain name registration service according to the present invention.
• Fig. 7 is a view illustrating a screen layout for a Hangul domain name registration guidance, developed according to a selection of a domain registration menu in Fig. 6.
• a domain name system has an inverted hierarchical tree structure having a root as a starting point.
• the infrastructure of the root domain includes highest-order domains of .org, .net, .com, .edu, .kr, and .jp, which include their infrastructures having sub- domains of .co, .ac, .or, etc., respectively.
• the infrastructures of those sub-domains may consist of domain names of, for example, company's names, personal names, etc., respectively.
• the use of a new domain name is allowed only when the name is registered with interNIC in order to maintain its uniqueness over all registered domain names.
• the highest-order domains of .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov, etc., are administered by interNIC, where .com is used by the company for profit or the organization, .net used by organizations managing networks, .org used by not-for- profit organizations, .edu used by universities, and .gov used by the United States
• the domain of .com is the most popularized top level to which quite numerous sub-domains over the Internet are pertained, which now leads to the exhaustion of meaningful domain names. Therefore, it may be actually impossible to create a registerable sub-domain name of the .com domain using a specific significant word or a combination of characters.
• the present invention is able to produce second or third domain names with meanings identical or similar with or to those of all initial domain names, which second and third domain names are capable of being actually registered.
• Each of the currently registered domain names consists of a combination of alphanumeric characters or character strings having a specific meaning. Therefore, each non-English native user in non-English speaking countries must change a keyboard connected to his computer from a vernacular mode to an English mode and then type a specific English word in a URL window, search window or domain name registration window on a Web site displayed on a monitor of the computer, in order to register a new domain name or access a specific Internet Web site.
• a Hangul user connects to a main Web site provided by the present invention using his own computer. Then, in order to register a desired domain name with interNIC, the Hangul user positions the cursor on a Hangul domain registration window, selects a Hangul mode using a Korean/English switching key on a Hangul keyboard and types a specific meaningful Korean word in the Hangul domain registration window. As a result, Korean letters appear in the Hangul domain registration window.
• the plug-in program executes an automatic conversion of the input Korean domain name into a series of English characters. For example, under the condition that the Hangul keyboard is in the English mode, when a Hangul word of "OJ S" (which means "travel") is entered, an arrangement of English letters corresponding to that Hangul word appears as “dugod", which arrangement itself will be registered as a domain name. Similarly, when a Hangul word, "rrS” (which means “bank”) is inputted, an arrangement of English letters corresponding to that Hangul word appears as "dmsgod”, which arrangement itself will be registered as a domain name. Similarly, when “3 OH” (which means “auction”) and “S H” (which means tobacco”) are entered as domain names to be registered, they become “rudao” and "ekaqo", respectively.
• the plug-in program can be directly downloaded through a certain download-purposed window provided on the Web site, or be provided as a component of the Web browser.
• a Web server serves as a convenience to the user by acquiring the authority for domain name registration capable of guiding a vernacular entered in an address box to a download page and directly applying it to a database.
• a domain name registration program in the main web site runs to authenticate whether a word with an English character arrangement of the determined domain name has been already registered or not, and if not registered, immediately proceeds to register the determined domain name.
• the main Web site or Korean-based sub-web site displays a Hangul expression of the requested domain name together with an arrangement of English characters corresponding thereto, so that the requester can recognize them.
• the plug-in program can be used to automatically produce an Internet domain name.
• a series of English characters may be produced as a domain name by typing a Korean word with a specific meaning in the English mode of the keyboard and then directly registered with interNIC. This procedure is performed in the following manner.
• a Hangul user connects to the main Web site provided by the present invention over the Internet. Then, in order to register a desired domain name with interNIC, the Hangul user positions the cursor on the Hangul domain registration window, selects the English mode using the Korean/English switching key on the Hangul keyboard and types a specific meaningful Korean word in the Hangul domain registration window. As a result, an ambiguous arrangement of English letters appears in the Hangul domain registration window. For example, under the condition that the Hangul keyboard is in the English mode, when a Hangul word of "Oj ⁇ j" (which means "travel") is entered, an ambiguous arrangement of English letters corresponding to that Hangul word appears as "dugod" in the Hangul domain registration window, which arrangement itself will be registered as a domain name.
• the domain name registration program in the main web site runs to authenticate whether a word with an English character arrangement of the determined domain name has been already registered or not, and if not registered, immediately proceeds to register the determined domain name.
• the main Web site or Korean-based sub- web site displays a Hangul expression of the requested domain name together with an arrangement of English characters corresponding thereto, so that the requester can recognize them.
• the plug-in program may be used for translating a server computer name, www, and names indicating a kind of domain, .com, .net, etc., in a URL into vernaculars of respective countries, including Hangul.
• www.eoxhdfud.com or “www.eoxhdfud.net” in the URL may have substantially the same address value as that of any one of the following items:
• a requester When a domain name created using a vernacular, including Hangul, is to be registered, a requester is required to provide his personal information. The provision of the requester's personal information is essential to the registration of a domain name.
• a list of requesters may be stored in a separate member database to maintain them, which database can be shared with the main Web server for organic data exchange with the Web server.
• the resulting non-grammatical English domain name would consist of more than five English letters, because most Hangul words contain more than two syllables and one Hangul character is separated into initial and medial phonemes, or initial, medial and final phonemes. This offers information of a significance in selecting a domain name.
• the initials frequently used in English speaking communities and also used as a domain name mostly contain three to four letters, and combinations of more than five letters are little used, except for particular cases. Further, since the initials are usually made by English native users in consideration of English pronunciation, the combination of alphabet letters resulting from the Hangul-used domain name has the lowest possibility of being in conflict with the existing English initials.
• Such keyboards may be, for example, Arabic,.99sian, Bengali, Belgian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese, Wegn, Czech, Danish, Estonnian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin America, Ardian, Nepali, Netherlands, Nowegian, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Snhali, Slovak, Slovenian, Soanish, Swedish, Swiss, Tamil, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese keyboards.
• the word of "Education” assuming that the domain name,
• the plug-in program operable to automatically converting a word based on a non-English native language into an arrangement of alphanumeric characters, provided by the present invention, wherein the program allows only the entries of keys corresponding to numerals of 0 to 9, alphabetic letters of a-z and a hyphen of -, even if any keystrokes for forming any words by a non-English native language are activated, and ignores the entries of keys not allowed in terms of a domain name, thereby making the creation ofthe domain name possible, even when any word combination made based upon a non-English native language is input.
• the plug-in program excludes prohibitive special-letters, "#", “@” and “*”, among the above arrangement of "tk#j@o7*f and adopts the remaining letters, "tkjo7f ' consisting of only characters and numerals, as the final domain name to be registered.
• the plug-in program may be resident in all server domain Web sites, as well as the main domain Web site.
• Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a service execution system for registration of domain names using vernaculars in non-English speaking countries according to the present invention.
• a Web server 10 may have a member database 12, a plug-in program provision system 14, and an E-mail server 16 which is managed in the Web server 10 or available from affiliated concerns for serving electronic mail or "E-mail" to registered members.
• a Web portal site which is created and uploaded on the Internet by the Web server 10 is used a base level of a main domain Web site, for example, "iklik.com” or “rklik.net”, to which sub-domains of individual countries are linked.
• the sub-domains may be defined as follows: in the case of Korea, "eoxhdfud.com” or “eoxhdfud.net”, or alternatively, " CH S g .com” or “ CH 5 ⁇ .net”; in the case of Japan, as “S ⁇ hcom” or “S! .net”; or in the case of Thailand, “ ⁇ .com” or “ ⁇ chnet”. It is obvious that the above-mentioned notations of "SI S “ “ or “4 s cJ " " would be expressed in a Japanese or Thailand native language, instead of the Korean language. As such, any user over the world can use a computer 18 to access the Web server 10 of the present invention through the main or sub-domain Web site.
• a user may want to create and register an Internet domain name based upon his native language, or to be guided to proceed to a target site.
• the user accessing the Web server 10 can click over a country indication window on the Web site screen of the main domain, such as iklik.com, eoxhdfud.com, iklik.net, eoxhdfud.net, etc. Then, the user can arrive at a sub-domain Web site, linked to the Web server 10, of each country.
• the user With simple clicking on the menu prepared in the main Web site or in foreign Web sites, the user arrives at his vernacular-used Web site, where the user can be provided with a registration agent's service when he requests the registration of a domain name including his own native language.
• Fig. 6 illustrates a screen layout of a Web site capable of being made and edited according to the present invention.
• the Web site built by the Web server of the present invention may include a main domain display area 20, a sub-domain display area 22, a main menu display area 24, a domain registration menu selection area 26, a sub-menu display area 28 and an individual country calling area 30.
• the main domain display area 20 is used to indicate a higher-order domain of the Web site of the present invention, such as iklik.com or iklik.net, or CH 5 ⁇ .com or CH 5 ⁇ ! .net.
• the sub-domain display area 22 shows a plurality of sub-domains each having its own domain function, including, for example, ' ⁇
• the main menu display area 24 and sub-menu display area 28, which have organic relation to each other, are PIP-switched depending on the menu selection (clicking) by a Web site visitor.
• windows associated with the selected menus arranged with the concept of sequential arrangement, are sequentially shifted in A, B and C order, from the window immediately before the latest window.
• the window A in the sub menus display area 28 is clicked, contents in the area A are displayed on the whole main menu, while the current contents in the main menu having been displayed on the main menu are moved to the area A to be displayed.
• the window B is clicked, contents in the area B are displayed on the whole main menu, while the contents in the window A are moved down to the window B to be displayed and the main menu is displayed on the window A.
• the individual country calling area 30 is provided to be able to indicate the national flags, together with the names of the countries. With the clicking on the flag of interest, a language to be used in the main menu 24 can be selected. Therefore, this invention provides an excellent advantage when each Internet user in individual countries accesses the Web site ofthe main domain of interest or the Web site of the sub-domain in a foreign language and then switches the accessed Web site into his own native language Web site.
• the user can simply click on the domain registration menu selection area 26. For example, if a Korean clicks on the above area for the registration of a Korean-based domain name, a Hangul domain name registration request window 32 appears on the screen, as shown in Fig. 7.
• a domain name requester enters a desired Hangul domain name .com in the Hangul domain name registration request window 32 through the Hangul Keyboard.
• the requester can use the mouse in order to enter the Hangul domain name by positioning the mouse cursor 36 over a desired letter on a key input area 34 and then clicking it.
• an interNIC domain name input box 38 is used for entering the Hangul domain name and also for showing the entered vernacular name and an English alphanumeric arrangement corresponding thereto.
• an individual country's (including Korea) domain name input box 40 can also be used for entering a domestic-exclusive Hangul domain name and requesting the registration thereof. In such a way, after a desired native language- based domain name is entered, a simple clicking of the registration button recognition area 42 advances to a procedure for registering a vernacular domain name.
• the above-described procedure of registering the domain name may also be applied to those for serving subscriber-oriented personal homepages under the Web server 10, as well as for requesting E-mail address assignment.
• Special symbols, for example, !, @, #, $, %, ⁇ , &, *, etc., obtained when pressing 0 to 9 numeral keys with a shift-key being pressed may be used to make a single imaged form for the E- mail address and homepage address and to register it.
• Fig. 2 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a service execution method for registration of domain names using vernaculars in non-English speaking countries according to the present invention.
• an Internet user accesses a main Web site, such as eoxhdfud.com, iklik.net, etc., clicks a menu for designating his own country to access a sub Web site in his own native language, and then decides whether or not the user's vernacular-used domain name registration will be made.
• a main Web site such as eoxhdfud.com, iklik.net, etc.
• a flow advances to a subroutine where the registration of the vernacular-used domain name is completed, and otherwise, information search in a Web site of interest or any search for another site is made.
• Fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of registering a vernacular domain name according to the present invention.
• Web server 10 retrieves and activates the plug- in program from the plug- in program provision system 14, and thus creates a string of English alphabetic letters corresponding to the requested user's native language-based domain name.
• the plug-in program allows only the entries of keys corresponding to numbers, English letters and a hyphen and ignores the entries of keys not allowed in terms of a domain name, thereby to satisfy requirements of the domain name registration. Therefore, the domain name satisfying the registration requirements can always be created for any entry of the possible combined native language-based words.
• the program inquires to the Internet domain name registration authority for confirming whether or not an arrangement of English alphabetic letters directly converted corresponding to the user's own native language-based domain name has been already registered. If no prior registration of the requested domain name is made, the registration procedure is immediately taken. The requester may be informed or notified ofthe result through E-mail.
• the information including the requester's personal details, a native language-based name, an English language-based name, etc. may be stored in the member database 12, if necessary. Based on the database containing information on each domain registration member, the guide for utilization of each registered domain and the maintenance are administrated. After completing the domain name registration as described above, the domain name can directly be entered in the URL as an arrangement of English letters, so that the user can access the Web site requested by the entered domain name.
• the domain name can directly be entered in the URL by using the user's own native language for access to the requested Web site. For example, for an access to the portal Web site having the domain name, "eoxhdfud" of the present invention, even the keystrokes of "www. CH S ⁇ .com” in the URL are possible. This operation may need to have a non-English native to English automatic conversion plug-in program in advance, which program can be downloaded from the portal site to which the system ofthe present invention is applied.
• the Web server 10 sends an automatic domain name conversion program stored in the plug-in program provision system 14 to the user computer 18.
• the plug-in program For recognition of a non-English domain name entered in the URL, the plug-in program is operated to take only non-English letters containing an identifier between a host name such as www, ftp, etc. and a sub-domain such as com, co.kr, pe.kr, etc. and to sequentially convert them into the corresponding English alphanumeric letters. Then, the program searches for a Web site based on the converted domain name, while indication of the non-English domain name remains in the URL.
• the plug-in program is automatically activated to be connected to "http://www.eoxhdfud.com", but the URL box maintains a display of "http://www. CH S ⁇ .com”.
• each non-English speaking user can confirm a domain name for access through the URL box in which the domain name is expressed in the user's recognizable native language, whereby a convenient use ofthe Internet is provided.
• a portion of the domain name in which non-English letters are placed among the letters displayed in the URL may be defined using the keyboard or the mouse, and the non-English letters in the portion may be converted into an arrangement of alphanumeric letters through the plug-in program.
• Fig. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a retrieval procedure for accessing a desired Web site with a user's native language-based domain name by using the above explained plug-in program.
• the E-mail server 16 of Fig. 1 is linked to the Web server 10 to provide the members with E-mail accounts.
• Each subscriber is assigned a personal E-mail account, the member's vernacular version of which can be registered through the request of E-mail assignment under the condition that the above explained plug-in program is driven.
• the plug-in program which allows non-English letters within a particular segment predefined to be automatically converted in an arrangement of English letters with respect to the particular segment, is directly applied to a format of an E-mail address
• the user's native language-based version of the E-mail address is convenient in using such an E-mail address by users in non- English speaking countries.
• an E-mail address will be "tl
• the mail server side can recognize the E-mail address as "qltj@iklik.com", which can be used for sending or receiving E-mail data.
• FIG. 5 is a flowchart briefly summarizing the above-explained procedure of registering the user's native language-based version ofthe E-mail address.
• Service for assisting in building a Web server-based personal homepage based upon a vernacular version of an E-mail address can be provided to each member of the Web site of the present invention by using the vernacular-based domain name registration method and the E-mail address assignment request and registration method.
• epochal activation in using E-mails and home pages would be made within each country, whereby a number of members in the sub-domain Web site are secured for each country, resulting in the building of a robust main domain Web site, the position of which is absolutely secured.
• new domain names of each non-English speaking country can be applied to popular Internet domain names being presently in saturation, thereby avoiding a domain drain situation.
• peoples in non-English speaking countries can benefit from
• domain names are systemically guided and maintained to guide and encourage activation of sites left unused, thereby preventing the production of sites being in name but not in reality.

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