Patent ID: 9455951
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing domain names, comprising: receiving, from a customer, a selection of a first domain name registered to the customer; receiving, from the customer, a specification of a first forwarding address to which requests for data associated with the first domain name are to be forwarded; updating a data store to associate the selected domain name with the specified forwarding address; periodically extracting the first forwarding address and the first domain name from the data store storing a plurality of forwarding address records, each forwarding address record indicating a forwarding address for one of a plurality of domain names; and periodically providing the first forwarding address and the first domain name to a web forwarding system which, in response to each subsequent request for data associated with the first domain name, forwards the request to the first forwarding address.