Patent ID: 7467140

Claim:
A system, comprising: a network; a registrar computer, coupled to the network, including a registrar database having a plurality of domain name records and an audit file having a plurality of unique identifiers, each unique identifier corresponding to a modified or deleted domain name record within the registrar database; and a whois computer, coupled to the network, including a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including a whois database having a plurality of domain name records and instructions adapted to be executed by the processor to perform a method, the method comprising: extracting the plurality of unique identifiers from the audit file; and for each unique identifier: determining whether a first domain name record that corresponds to the unique identifier exists within the registrar database, if the first domain name record exists, retrieving the first domain name record from the registrar database, determining whether a second domain name record that corresponds to the unique identifier exists within the whois database, if the second domain name record exists, retrieving the second domain name record from the whois database, comparing the first domain name record to the second domain name record, and updating the second domain name record, within the whois database, based on the first domain name record.