Patent ID: 8543732

Claim:
In an Internet directory server having a memory for Internet names to facilitate computers communicating with other computers using TCP/IP, which allows nationals to register different original conventional domain names using Letter Digit Hyphen ASCII (LDH ASCII) characters resulting a plurality of different registered domain names in the memory of an Internet directory server, each registered domain name having a single top level domain name, a second level domain name and having an Internet protocol address (IP), an improvement characterized by: an added one or more signal character or function character(s) which are ASCII characters not found in the LDH ASCII character set in a plurality of the same second level domain names seen by a user designating those domain names as being multiple registrations of the same domain names, the added one or more signal character(s) being a translation of characters within a central domain name system in the memory of the Internet directory server, the domain names containing the signal character or function character(s) being in addition to, different from each other and not replacing the original conventional registered domain name(s), which original conventional registered domain name(s) retain their original numerical IP address, wherein the one or more added signal characters seen by the user and not found in the LDH ASCII character set in the second level domain name is the added character(s) generated using an edge application and comprises a translation of one or more LDH ASCII character(s) in a format not conventionally found in a second level domain name, the added one or more signal character(s) being a translation of characters within a central domain name system, the edge application program residing in the memory of a user's computer.