Patent ID: 8117649

Claim:
A method, comprising: maintaining, by a root computing device, an information schema that includes one or more fields used to store information for a plurality of homesites, the information schema allowing one or more membersites to request the information from one or more of the plurality of homesites; updating the information schema by adding one or more new fields to the information schema for storing additional information for the plurality of homesites; responsive to receiving, by the root computing device, a schema-compliant request for information from the one or more membersites, sending requested information to the one or more membersites; and wherein the method further comprises: receiving a request for a shadow domain name resolution from a membersite for a shadow domain associated with a homesite; resolving a shadow domain name associated with the homesite to allow redirection from the membersite to the homesite; receiving a request for a shadow domain name resolution from a homesite for a shadow domain associated with a membersite; and resolving a shadow domain name associated with the membersite to allow redirection from the homesite to the membersite.