Patent ID: 8806057

Claim:
A method of providing users access to Internet-ubiquitous value-added on-line services by way of an appended top-level domain (TLD) naming convention, the method comprising: storing, at a non-transitory data storage medium, data indicating that a third-party is authorized to utilize, in response to Internet queries from users, a proprietary software-as-a-service (SaaS) application comprising device-executable coded instructions stored at a non-transitory data storage medium of a server (SaaS server), wherein: the third-party possesses rights to a uniform resource locator (third-party URL) corresponding to a distinct IP address, the third-party URL sequentially includes a second level domain (SLD) and a Top Level Domain (TLD), and utilizing the SaaS application includes processing, by a data processor operably coupled with the SaaS server, information relating to the third-party, and transmitting a reply from the SaaS server to the querying user, wherein the reply includes the third-party information and a result of the processing; receiving, at a TLD authority server, an Internet query from a user, wherein the query sequentially includes the third-party URL and a proprietary TLD suffix, and wherein the proprietary TLD suffix is registered with an authorized Internet registration organization and corresponds to an IP address of the TLD authority server; parsing past the TLD suffix of the query, via a URL-parsing mechanism operably coupled with the TLD authority server, and determining an identity of the third party corresponding to the remaining third-party URL; confirming, via an authenticating/routing mechanism operably coupled with the data storage medium at which is stored the third-party authorization data, that the identified third-party is authorized to utilize the SaaS stored at the SaaS server; and routing the query to the SaaS server for utilization of the SaaS, but not routing the query to the IP address corresponding to the third-party URL.