Patent ID: 9137126
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium including at least computer program code for monitoring domain name registrations, the computer readable medium comprising: computer program code for registering a name to be monitored by a requesting user; computer program code for searching, by one or more computing devices, one or more registration databases to identify one or more registrations of at least one registered domain name that is similar to the registered name; computer program code for monitoring, by the one or more computing devices, activation of a website at the at least one registered domain name of the identified one or more registrations, the activation of the website being detected based at least in part on whether an error is returned in response to an access attempt to the website; and computer program code for informing the requesting user, in response to the computer program code for monitoring, of (i) the identified one or more registrations as determined by the computer program code for searching and (ii) the activation of the website at the at least one registered domain name of the identified one or more registrations as determined by the computer program code for monitoring.