Patent ID: 8515995

Claim:
A method for determining multiple available domain names from a universal resource location (URL) entry comprising: responsive to detecting a URL entry comprising at least a portion of a domain name at a domain name system (DNS) resolver of a computer system, sending, by said DNS resolver, said domain name to a DNS server, wherein an address translation system implemented by said DNS server attempts to translate domain names into associated network addresses, wherein said DNS server receives said domain name comprising alphanumerics and returns a network address comprising numerals resolved for said domain name if said domain name translated to an available network address, wherein said DNS server returns an error message for said domain name if said domain name is an invalid domain name without an associated network address; responsive to said DNS resolver detecting said particular error message in an attempt by an said address translation system to translate said domain name into said available network address, detecting by said DNS resolver said URL entry associated with said particular error message; automatically selecting, by a DNS resolver, a plurality of possible domain names for at least said portion of said domain name, wherein each of said plurality of possible domain names comprises a separate one of a plurality of ending types; responsive to said DNS resolver selecting the plurality of possible domain names, sending, by said DNS resolver, a separate resolve request for each of the plurality of possible domain names to said DNS server to resolve a separate network location of each of the plurality of possible domain names; responsive to said DNS resolver receiving each separate response to each said separate resolve request, detecting, by said DNS resolver, a selection of said plurality of possible domain names each resolved with a separate associated network address within a network from a selection of separate responses comprising each said separate associated network address, wherein said selection of said plurality of possible domain names does not comprise at least one particular possible domain name from among said plurality of possible domain names from a second selection of separate responses comprising at least one error message; and directing, from said DNS resolver to a browser, concurrent output of a separate selectable thumbnail representation of a separate web page accessible from each of said selection of said plurality of possible domain names within an interface of said browser, such that a user is enabled to quickly determine said selection of said plurality of possible domain names from entry of at least said portion of said domain name as said URL entry.