Patent ID: 8667609

Claim:
A method implemented on a computer system to ensure that a domain name registration would not infringe a trademark, comprising: receiving, from a requester, a request for an internet domain name; determining a degree of relevance between the internet domain name and at least one trademark, wherein the degree of relevance comprises a combination of: a similarity score determined by comparing characters in the trademark with characters in the internet domain name; and a class comparison score determined by comparing trademark classes associated with the at least one trademark with trademark classes associated with the internet domain name, wherein a higher number of matching classes corresponds to a greater degree of relevance; retrieving, by the computer system, a notice of the at least one trademark; displaying, by the computer system, a notification to the requester, the notification based in part on the notice and a relation between the degree of relevance and a threshold; receiving, by the computer system, acknowledgement of the notification from the requester; and causing, by the computer system, the internet domain name to be registered based in part on the determined degree of relevance, wherein the causing includes making the acknowledgement available to a third party.