Patent ID: 8463877

Claim:
A system comprising: a content delivery network service provider including at least one computing device, the at least one computing device operative to: receive a request for translation information, generated by a client computing device, for a resource identifier associated with a requested resource, the resource identifier originally provided to the client computing device by a content provider; generate translation information responsive to the request, wherein the translation information provides instructions for the client computing device to generate a modified resource identifier by modifying the resource identifier to include information pertaining to popularity of the requested resource, and wherein a DNS query using the modified resource identifier directs the client computing device to communicate with one or more DNS name server components of a content delivery network capable of processing DNS queries corresponding to the modified resource identifier, the one or more DNS name server components different from the content provider and determined, at least in part, based upon the popularity information; and transmit the translation information to the client computing device.