Patent ID: 9584388
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method to determine traffic volume of a domain name server caused by a host domain, the method comprising: storing, in a memory, page view data that relates to the domain name server; receiving, from a device, a first query for a resource associated with the host domain; in response to receipt of the first query, adding an instruction to the resource to produce a modified resource, the modified resource being effective to generate a second query; sending the modified resource to the device; receiving, from the device, the second query, where the second query includes an identification of the domain name server; detecting the identification in the second query; in response to the detection of the identification, updating the page view data; and determining the traffic volume of the domain name server caused by the host domain based on the page view data; wherein the page view data corresponds to page view data within a time period, and the method further comprises, by the host domain, resetting the page view data after the time period has passed.