Patent ID: 8307088

Claim:
A content delivery network (CDN) apparatus, comprising: a set of content servers operated by a service provider distinct from a set of content providers; a domain name service operated by the service provider, the domain name service having a set of name servers that are authoritative for content domains associated with the set of content providers; a computer system that facilitates integration of a content provider site (a) by receiving, by the service provider, a domain name associated with a markup language page, the domain name identifying an origin server associated with a content provider, and (b) in response, providing, by the service provider, a CDN-specific domain that points to the domain name service and that is associated with the domain name; and software contained in a non-transitory computer readable medium and executed on a name server of the set of name servers that receives the CDN-specific domain and returns an IP address associated with at least one of the set of content servers; and software contained in a non-transitory computer readable medium and executed on a content server associated with the IP address to manage delivery of the markup language page.