Patents Assigned to Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
  • Patent number: 10834076
    Abstract: An Internet resource provider (IRP) may authenticate a user and, upon a successful authentication, allow the user to perform one or more actions on webpages that are within an account of the user. The IPR may store the most recent actions of the user in a temporary access code (TAC) database. If the user has a problem, the user may select a TAC button on a webpage within the account of the user. The IPR may generate a TAC, store the TAC in association with the recent activities of the user in the TAC database and transmit the TAC to the user. The user may contact and provide the TAC to a customer support service center. The customer support service center may authenticate the user based solely on the TAC and determine the one or more recent actions of the user in the TAC database. The customer support service center may provide assistance to the user based at least partially on the one or more recent actions of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Blinn, Mitchell Dean Olson, Jacob Louis Brooks, John Basyl Kercheval
  • Patent number: 10764283
    Abstract: A domain name registrar may suggest and/or allow a user to select one or more domain names registered to the user for on demand multifactor authentication. The user may select one or more protected activities that trigger the enhanced security for the selected domain name(s). The user may also enter a plurality of authenticatees, contact information for the authenticatees and a minimum number of authenticatees required to approve the one or more protected activities. The user and/or authenticatees may also enter at least two authentication methods for each authenticatee and corresponding correct responses. The selected domain names are thus protected from the protected activities until approved by a minimum number of authenticatees using at least a first authentication method and a second authentication method selected from different groups of “what you know,” what you have” and “what you are” authentication methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Arnold Neil Blinn
  • Patent number: 10747841
    Abstract: Systems and method of the present invention provide for one or more server computers configured to identify, within a database transaction log, a dynamic website content in a database and a command modifying the dynamic website content, write the dynamic website content and the command modifying the dynamic website content to a website repository as a delta, receive a request to reverse the command modifying the dynamic website content, identify, within the delta, the command modifying the dynamic website content, and generate and execute a database query configured to reverse the command modifying the dynamic website content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Don LeBert, Domingo Kiser, Ganesh Devarajan, Todd Redfoot
  • Patent number: 10721183
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for dynamically allocating and accessing hosting server resources to users of hosting services. The system may include one or more servers that provide multiple levels of access to the hosting server resources, and an administration server configured with one or more migration paths that allow the user to migrate the account between two levels while the account remains accessible to all entities authorized to access the account. The hosting server resources may be divided according to virtual partitions that are resizable by the administration server. The system may include a migration interface stored on and accessible to the user from the administration server. The migration interface provides the user with options to migrate the account between the levels of access. The system may include an application programming interface that provides access to the administration server for changing the account's level of access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Harry Jasperson, Jr., Daymion Tad Reynolds, William R. Watt, II
  • Patent number: 10715488
    Abstract: Methods of the present inventions allow for generating and providing an enhanced domain name. An exemplary method may comprise providing an enhanced domain to a second party. The enhanced domain may comprise a domain name, a web space automatically enabled and associated with the domain name, and at least one application automatically enabled and associated with the domain name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Curran, Justin Jilg
  • Patent number: 10713418
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: monitor a character stream; identify characters comprising a domain name request; identify a token in a language character map comprising the characters and associated with a language; generate, using a software translation engine, a translation of the first token into a second language; generate candidate domain names comprising: a domain name comprising the token; and a second domain name comprising the second token; modify, in real time, a user interface control to display the list of candidate domain names.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Wei-Cheng Lai, Yang Zhao
  • Patent number: 10713331
    Abstract: A website hosting provider may assist hosting customers with the creation and publication of their websites. The website hosting provider may receive and convert customer service voice communications into customer service text communications. The website hosting provider may organize the customer service text communications in clusters so that all of the customer service text communications in the same cluster are regarding the same topic. The website hosting provider may also assign a score, regarding the effectiveness, and hosting customer variables, regarding the calling hosting customer, to each customer service text communication. When a new, i.e., current hosting customer calls regarding a topic and has similar hosting customer variables, the website hosting provider may determine, based on the past customer service text communications, a set of optimal questions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Jared Lewandowski, Justin Tsai, Josh Berk
  • Patent number: 10693747
    Abstract: A website hosting provider may assist hosting customers with the creation and publication of their websites. The website hosting provider may receive and convert customer service voice communications into customer service text communications. The website hosting provider may organize the customer service text communications in clusters so that all of the customer service text communications in the same cluster are regarding the same topic. The website hosting provider may also assign a score, regarding the effectiveness, and hosting customer variables, regarding the calling hosting customer, to each customer service text communication. When a new, i.e., current hosting customer calls regarding a topic and has similar hosting customer variables, the website hosting provider may determine, based on the past customer service text communications, a set of optimal questions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Jared Lewandowski, Justin Tsai, Josh Berk
  • Patent number: 10659423
    Abstract: A system and method for modifying domain name system (DNS) templates are presented. A DNS template database is configured to store DNS templates. A DNS record database is configured to store a plurality of DNS records for a plurality of domain names. A host computer server is configured to receive an electronic signal encoding a request containing a modification to a DNS template from a user, the DNS template being stored in the DNS template database, access the DNS template database to modify the DNS template according to request containing the modification to create a modified DNS template, identify a plurality of domain names using the DNS template, and, for each domain name in the plurality of domain names, access the DNS record database to at least one of modify and create a DNS record for the domain name using the modified DNS template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Nitin Gupta, Rahul Mahajan, Richard Merdinger, John Patrick Roling, Karen Trueblood Munoz, Steven Louis Wiesenthal
  • Patent number: 10659424
    Abstract: A registrar may determine a registration status for a domain names. The registrar may determine whether the domain name is in a zone file downloaded from a registry. Upon determining that the domain name is not in the zone file, the registrar may determine whether the domain name is in a DNS zone file created by the registrar. Upon determining that the domain name is not in the DNS zone file created by the registrar, the registrar may transmit an EPP <check> command for the domain name to the registry. The registrar may receive a first EPP <resData> element comprising an error indicating the domain name is available or a value indicating the domain name is not available. Upon receiving the value indicating the domain name is not available, the registrar may transmit an EPP <info> command for the domain name to the registry. The registrar may receive a second EPP <resData> element from the registry comprising an expiration date and a state of the domain name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Moninder Jheeta, Charles Beadnall, Christopher Ambler
  • Patent number: 10630639
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for a server computer coupled to a network and configured to: receive an image; transmit the digital image to an API operated by at least one metadata generation service, and receive a metadata data set about the digital image, prioritize a plurality of keywords within the data set, generate a list of candidate domain names including a keyword, insert a second candidate domain name into the list comprising a keyword replacing or concatenated to the keyword and associated with a lower priority than the keyword; and transmit the list to a client computer for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Jesse Bilsten
  • Patent number: 10601774
    Abstract: A domain name hi-jack prevention service may be selected by a domain name registrant and enabled by a Registrar. In a first embodiment, the Registrar may send a confirmation request via a preferred contact method to the registrant and only move the domain name from a first account to a second account (both managed by the Registrar) when the registrant confirms the request. In a second embodiment, a third party platform that is independent from and/or not the Registrar confirms the identity of the registrant before the Registrar moves the domain name from the first account to the second account (again, both managed by the Registrar). In a third embodiment, a third party platform communicates an authorization code to a verified registrant so the registrant can enter the authorization code with a Gaining Registrar so the domain name may be transferred from a Losing Registrar to the Gaining Registrar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Sarah Ptalis, Paul Nicks, Frank Taylor
  • Patent number: 10581799
    Abstract: A registrant, after registering a domain name at a losing registrar, may request at a gaining registrar that the domain name be transferred to the gaining registrar. The gaining registrar may verify that the domain name is registered to the registrant, available for transfer and the person requesting the transfer is in fact the registrant. The gaining registrar may provide evidence that the registrant was authenticated to the losing registrar and request a registry to transfer the domain name to the gaining registrar. Upon the registry confirming the validity of the request with the losing registrar, the registry may transfer the domain name to the gaining registrar. This method allows the registrant to transfer the domain name, after registering the domain name at the losing registrar, to the gaining registrar entirely from the gaining registrar. In other words, the registrant does not need to communicate with the losing registrar during the transfer process of the domain name to the gaining registrar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Sarah Phoenix, Arun Krishnasamy, Raja Ravi Teja Panidepu, Brian Kirsten, Kevin Allendorf, Karen Munoz, Chitra Yarlagadda, Tanmay Patil
  • Patent number: 10554417
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: identify, within a data store: a web page including a script tag; a URL in the script tag referencing a location for a second server hosting a script file; and a first hash data in the script tag generated from the script file using a hash function algorithm. The server computer(s) execute a request that accesses the script file and a second hash generated from the script file and stored on the second server computer. If the second hash data does not match the first hash data, execution of the script tag is disabled, and a notification is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Arnold Neil Blinn
  • Patent number: 10541968
    Abstract: A registrar may authenticate a registrant and allow the registrant to access a registrant customer account. The registrant customer account is private (accessible only by the registrant) and displays domain names and/or settings for the domain names registered to the registrant. The registrant may change domain name settings, such as renewals or DNS, from the registrant customer account. The registrar may generate one or more suggested domain names that are derived from the one or more domain names registered to the registrant. When the registrar detects an interest in a domain name registered to the registrant, the registrar may immediately thereafter display one or more suggested domain names that were derived from that domain name registered to the registrant for registration. If selected by the registrant, the registrar may register the selected suggested domain names to the registrant through a registry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: James Bladel, Richard Merdinger, Kevin Kreuser, Peter Osmond
  • Patent number: 10536426
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating custom domain name links are provided. At least one server communicatively coupled to a network receives a request to create a custom domain name link to a third party service. The request identifies a custom domain name. The at least one server retrieves, from a third party service link database, an entry for the third party service specifying how to create the custom domain name link for the third party service and he at least one server creates the custom domain name link in accordance with the entry retrieved from the third party service link database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Blinn, Nitin Gupta, Rahul Mahajan
  • Patent number: 10498847
    Abstract: A system and method for application deep linking is presented. The system includes a proxy server configured to receive a request for a first web page of a website. The proxy server retrieves content of the first web page and modifies the content to include a uniform resource indicator to create a modified content of the first web page. The uniform resource indicator includes the deep link setting and, when executed by a computing device, the uniform resource indicator causes the computing device to load an application identified by the uniform resource indicator. The proxy server is configured to transmit the modified content of the first web page to a requesting computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: David Popowitz, Marek Olszewski, Moninder Jheeta, Nitin Gupta, Rene Reinsberg
  • Patent number: 10467536
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: aggregate a plurality of knowledge base data comprising a plurality of tokens; identify a plurality of available domain names based on a difference between the plurality of tokens within the knowledge base data; eliminate from the plurality of available domain names, at least one grammatically incorrect domain name; rank the plurality of available domain names according to a machine learning algorithm; and transmit the plurality of available domain names to a client computer communicatively coupled to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Wei-Cheng Lai, Yang Zhao, Moninder Jheeta, Tapan Kamdar
  • Patent number: 10445377
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: store data records associated with an industry, with tags defining the content, layout or style of a website; aggregate industry related data records via data entry or extraction; receive a request to automatically generate a website in a specific industry; query a database for the most frequently occurring website features; and automatically generate the website according to the most frequently occurring website features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Josh Berk, Justin Tsai, Daniel K. Hardy
  • Patent number: 10437897
    Abstract: A system and method are presented for recommending packages of domain names. One or more computer servers receive a query including at least one keyword from a user. A business category associated with the user is identified and a first ranking of top level domain names for the business category is identified. A package of candidate domain names is generated containing a candidate domain name for each top level domain in the first ranking of top level domain names. The package of candidate domain names relevant to the query is displayed for selection and registration by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: James Carroll, Takao Suzuki