KR20040025342A - Service offering system and method by domain registration states - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system and a method for offering a service depending on a domain registration state are provided to induce a customer to register an expired domain by periodically informing expired time for the domain, and keep the domain by offering an expired domain registration agent service to the domain reached to expiration. CONSTITUTION: The customer connects to a server by using a client. The customer installs a program downloaded from the server or uses the program embedded into the server. The customer inputs a domain name to be searched to the client. The program searches the domain registration state with the inputted domain name. A condition code is generated/transmitted to the server based on the domain registration state. The domain registration state is output to the customer, and the server offers one of a new domain registration service, a domain change tracking service, and an expired domain registration agent service. A service charge is calculated/settled.

Description

Service offering system and method by domain registration states

The present invention is a system and service devised by devising the idea that when a customer searches for a domain in a domain registrar, the service cannot be provided for a domain that is previously registered and thus cannot be newly registered.

Most domains of high value as a current domain are already preempted and cannot be used by the general public. Domain registrars can't accept new registrations for these domains, so they often miss customers.

All domains have an expiration date, which is the expiration date. If you do not pay the extension fee by that time, you will naturally lose ownership and be classified as a fallback domain and will be deleted at a specific time.

Only a few experts who know the exact time of the deletion are re-registered so that ordinary people who need it often lose their registration.

Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems,

Even in the case of domains that are currently registered and cannot be newly registered, it is recommended to check in advance the timing of anticipation and inform the customer periodically so that the registration of the extraordinary domain will occur in the future. Even if you don't know the downtime by providing a service, you can provide a service to own a domain.

To provide these services, automated tools are needed to collect and analyze whois information. This tool acquires whois information of a specific domain through whois query for the domain registrar in which the domain registration information is written and analyzes it to check registration status, expiration date, etc. and provide services according to conditions.

In addition, in order to provide a change tracking service, which is a service that notifies each time the downtime and whois information is changed, a system for periodically collecting whois information and making a database thereof is required.

The technical problem of the present invention is an organic combination of the automated whois query and analysis tool and a user interface such as a web service page that is directly used by a customer, and the collection of periodic whois information.

[Figure 1] Steps for Domain Search and Service Delivery

[Fig 2] The steps leading to whois search and analysis of the domain entered by the customer in the whois search program

[Figure 3] Network Configuration for Change Tracking Service Target Domain Processing

[Figure 4] Sequence for Processing Change Tracking Service Target Domain

Fig. 5 An example of whois query results of registered institutions

1 is a flowchart of steps for domain search and service provision to which a preferred embodiment of the present invention is applied. If you try to search the domain after logging in to the service using a client such as a web browser or a mobile phone terminal of the customer's PC or PDA, the whois search program (hereinafter referred to as the Whois analysis program), which runs on the client, is automatically installed. do.

After that, when the customer enters the desired domain name in the domain search window displayed on the client, the program searches and analyzes the Whois information of the domain entered by the customer's Whois server and then newly based on the analysis data. The registration will be checked for availability and a new registration process will be performed if possible. If not, it checks whether the expiration date has elapsed. If the expiration date has elapsed, it will proceed with the application for the fallback domain registrar service. Otherwise, the domain change tracking service application process will be performed. Provide different services. Therefore, without any special knowledge, it is possible to provide a service that can be monitored until the desired domain is registered or dropped.

If the client environment does not allow the customer to install and use the program, the whois search program embedded in the serving server (hereinafter referred to as server) replaces the program to be installed on the client.

FIG. 2 is a step-by-step flow chart of the program described in FIG. 1 leading to Whois search and analysis of a domain entered by a customer.

First, the program connects to a whois server of a registrar or a registrar that stores registration information of a domain and requests whois information for a specific domain. If the server connection fails, an error code is returned to the client to inform the customer that the failure has occurred. If successful, obtain Whois information first to check whether the required registration information is missing or normal, and if it is missing, return the error code to the client to inform the customer that the registration is possible. Used as a condition.

FIG. 5 is an example of whois information obtained from a registration authority. The obtained whois information is in plain text and cannot be information perceivable by the computer itself, so it goes through a parsing step. Date data and string data are analyzed by analyzing a specific string such as a registration date, an expiration date, and a registrar. Collect it. The expiration date of the collected data is compared to the current date, and if the elapsed date has been passed, the request for requesting a change of domain is performed. This is also done by returning the result code and the analyzed information to the client.

FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 are network diagrams and flow charts for processing a change tracking service target domain after receipt.

Instead of using the server directly to reduce the server network load due to Whois information retrieval, analysis, and e-mail sending, each tool installed on several PCs has a domain to search from the database server (hereinafter referred to as database). The Whois information is collected at a certain time interval from the registrar to the list of domains and analyzed again by computer-recognized information such as registration date, expiration date, and registrar name.

If the database contains information previously retrieved from the time of search for the domain currently being searched, the Whois information full text (all Whois text received from the registrar for a specific domain) is obtained from the database and compared in line with the currently searched Whois information full text. If there is a difference, it is recorded in the database and sent to all customers who have applied for the domain by e-mail with analysis of the difference between the existing Whois information and the current Whois information. If the domain has passed the expiration date, the information is recorded and stored in the database so that the downtime can be calculated and the notification mail can be sent again before that time.

A general domain registrar only services new registrations of domains that can be registered, and does not provide other services for domains already registered. However, using these systems and services will generate additional revenue.

From the customer's point of view, even if you are not familiar with whois information, you can enter the domain name so that you can register the domain you want. It is meaningful that anyone can register a desired domain relatively easily by encouraging them to apply for the service of the domain registration agent if it is close to the current point of time.

Claims (3)

In the method of providing different types of services according to the search and the search results of the domain through the Internet, A first step in which a customer connects to a server using a client such as a web browser of a PC and a PDA, a mobile phone terminal, or the like; A second step of checking whether the program is installable on the client; A third step of downloading a program from a server and installing and using the program in a client or using a program embedded in the server according to the installability checked in the second step; A fourth step of entering a domain name for the customer to search for the client; A fifth step of checking, by the program, the registration status of the domain with the domain name entered into the client; A sixth step of generating a condition code based on the registered registration state and transmitting the condition code to the server; A seventh step of outputting the current status using the condition code received from the program and providing one of new domain registration service, domain change tracking service, and fallback domain registrar service; And an eighth step of calculating and paying a service cost according to the service provided in the seventh step. The method of claim 1, wherein the fifth step comprises: receiving registration information of a textual domain from a whois server of a domain registrar using a domain name inputted by a program; Analyzing the information based on the registration information of the received domain into information that can be recognized by a computer, such as a registration date, an expiration date, and a registrar name of the domain; And providing the service according to the information to the customer by transmitting the analyzed information to the server. The method of claim 1, wherein the domain applied for the change tracking service in step 7, When the customer applies, recording the application details in a database; Periodically collecting whois information of the domain registrar which stores the registration information of the domain by using the list of serviced domains recorded in the database after the application; Comparing the collected whois information with the existing whois information recorded in the database; Generating information classified by a registration date, an expiration date, a registrar name, and the like by analyzing the data collected when the difference is found as a result of the comparison; A data storage step of recording the data together with the whois information in a database; Sending an e-mail to an e-mail address of the customer who applied for the service, analyzing the difference between the existing whois information and the changed whois information; If the domain is likely to fall off after the expiration date of the search result, the change tracking service comprises calculating a predicted drop time in advance and sending a notification message to an e-mail or mobile phone short message of a customer who applied for the service. Provided and how.