Patents Assigned to Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
  • Publication number: 20150304383
    Abstract: A hosting provider may host a website at a first hosting location based on initial business information received from a hosting customer, perhaps while the hosting customer created an account. The initial business information may include, as non-limiting examples, whether the business is a local or non-localized business, business addresses and/or registered domain names. A domain name, particularly if it resolves to the website, may be analyzed for incorporated words, spelling, characters and/or top-level domain that may point to, or be more commonly used in, one or more geographical regions. The website may be moved to a second location based on the initial business information combined with subsequently collected business information, such as, as non-limiting examples, updated address information, marketing campaigns aimed at particular locations and/or based on the originating location of traffic to the website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: James Carroll, Paul Bennett
  • Publication number: 20150304235
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for allocating and accessing website resources via domain name routing rules as opposed to the domain name system (DNS). The system may include a reverse proxy server that includes domain name routing rules and a plurality of hosting servers. The reverse proxy server may receive a request from a client, wherein the request may comprise a domain name and possibly a path. The reverse proxy server may fulfill the request using the domain name routing rules for the domain name and possibly the path. The request may be, as non-limiting examples, to transfer a file to a requester, move a file from one server to another server, allocate redundant passive resources that may be activated in the event of an error, provide a website resource that may span two or more hosting servers and/or retrieve data from cache on the reverse proxy server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Daymion T. Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20150304442
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for allocating and accessing website resources via domain name routing rules as opposed to the domain name system (DNS). The system may include a reverse proxy server that includes domain name routing rules and a plurality of hosting servers. The reverse proxy server may receive a request from a client, wherein the request may comprise a domain name and possibly a path. The reverse proxy server may fulfill the request using the domain name routing rules for the domain name and possibly the path. The request may be, as non-limiting examples, to transfer a file to a requester, move a file from one server to another server, allocate redundant passive resources that may be activated in the event of an error, provide a website resource that may span two or more hosting servers and/or retrieve data from cache on the reverse proxy server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Daymion T. Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20150304408
    Abstract: A hosting provider may host a website at a first hosting location based on initial business information received from a hosting customer, perhaps while the hosting customer created an account. The initial business information may include, as non-limiting examples, whether the business is a local or non-localized business, business addresses and/or registered domain names. A domain name, particularly if it resolves to the website, may be analyzed for incorporated words, spelling, characters and/or top-level domain that may point to, or be more commonly used in, one or more geographical regions. The website may be moved to a second location based on the initial business information combined with subsequently collected business information, such as, as non-limiting examples, updated address information, marketing campaigns aimed at particular locations and/or based on the originating location of traffic to the website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: James Carroll, Paul Bennett
  • Patent number: 9160809
    Abstract: An exemplary method accelerating content delivery via DNS overriding may comprise the steps of generating a routing table for a content delivery network (CDN), the routing table map one or more edge server IP addresses to each of one or more geographic regions, transmitting the routing table to one or more DNS server computers, receiving a request from a registrant of a domain name to subscribe the domain name to the CDN, and designating said domain name as subscribed to the CDN in a DNS zone for the domain name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Roger Carney, David Koopman
  • Patent number: 9141669
    Abstract: An exemplary system and method for generating a data list of websites and configuring at least one server computer coupled to a communications network for an origin server website content delivery may comprise a network storage device communicatively coupled to a network and storing a routing table for a CDN, the routing table map one or more edge server IP addresses for one or more edge servers to each of one or more geographic regions. The network storage device may be configured to transmit the routing table to one or more DNS servers communicatively coupled to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Craig Jellick, David Koopman
  • Patent number: 9141789
    Abstract: Several methods are disclosed for detecting and mitigating Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks that are intended to exhaust network resources. The methods use DDoS mitigation devices to detect DDoS attacks using operationally based thresholds. The methods also keep track of ongoing attacks, have an understanding of “protected IP space,” and activate appropriate mitigation tactics based on the severity of the attack and the capabilities of the DDoS mitigation devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Gerlach, Don LeBert
  • Publication number: 20150261873
    Abstract: A system and method for rendering web pages is presented. A request identifying a domain name and a web page is received by at least one server communicatively coupled to a network. A TXT record associated with the domain name is then retrieved by the at least one server and the TXT record is analyzed to identify one or more settings associated with the domain name or the web page. The web page is then rendered in accordance with the one or more settings into a rendered web page by the at least one server. Finally, the rendered web page is transmitted to a computer system using the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Arnold Blinn
  • Patent number: 9130970
    Abstract: An exemplary system for accelerating content delivery via DNS overriding may comprise a network storage device communicatively coupled to a network and storing a routing table for a CDN, the routing table map one or more edge server IP addresses for one or more edge servers to each of one or more geographic regions. The network storage device may be configured to transmit the routing table to one or more DNS servers communicatively coupled to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Roger Carney, David Koopman
  • Publication number: 20150220997
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: transmit a marketing campaign from a first virtual internet protocol (IP) address; identify, during a transmission of the marketing campaign, a quantity of undeliverable or unsolicited email; determine whether the quantity of undeliverable or unsolicited email is equal to or greater than a threshold quantity of undeliverable or unsolicited email; and responsive to a determination that the quantity of undeliverable or unsolicited email is equal to or greater than the threshold quantity, transmit, prior to a conclusion of the transmission, the marketing campaign from a second virtual IP address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Neil Proctor, Bill Brown, Ian Schiffer
  • Publication number: 20150213462
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for determining business trends. Data may be collected and stored in a database regarding domain name registrations, availability checks and/or search engine user queries. In preferred embodiments, the data includes temporal or order information regarding when the data was collected. The data may be parsed into a plurality of tokens, where each token is a word or group of words commonly used together. How often each token appears in the data, over time, may be calculated. In some embodiments, related tokens (such as synonyms, abbreviations, common misspellings, geographically related, categories, etc.) may be grouped and considered together. One or more business trends may be determined based on how often, or changes to how often over time, the tokens appear in the data. The changes of token usage and/or business trends may be transmitted over a computer network to a client computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Rajinder Nijjer
  • Publication number: 20150212986
    Abstract: The invention uses alternate mapping between characters and font glyphs to prevent website content from being plagiarized or indexed by a third party. Specifically, a font glyph file may be created comprising a plurality of font glyphs. One or more font glyphs in the file may illustrate a first character while being mapped to a second character. An altered text file may be created by replacing each character in an original text file with a character that is mapped to a font glyph that illustrates the original character. The server may transmit the altered text file and the font glyph file to a browser. The browser may create an image by replacing each character, in the altered text file, with a font glyph mapped to the character from the font glyph file. The browser may display to a user the image which matches the original text file without the browser ever receiving the original text file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Jared Lera
  • Publication number: 20150207692
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying metrics indicating the geographical source of backlinks to at least one of a website and a web page is presented. A plurality of backlinks are identified for a web page. Each of the plurality of backlinks includes a uniform resource locator (URL). For each backlink in the plurality of backlinks, the backlink is translated into an Internet protocol (IP) address, a geographical location associated with the IP address is identified, and the backlink is allocated to at least one of a plurality of geographical regions using the geographical location. A visual representation of at least one of the plurality of geographical regions and an indication of a number of backlinks allocated to the at least one of the plurality of geographical regions is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Jim Christian, Sarah Munoz-Bates, Rajinder Nijjer
  • Patent number: 9087356
    Abstract: An example embodiment of a Web Hosting Community includes at least three members, i.e. a Hosting Provider, a Hosting Customer and a Partner. The Hosting Provider may have one or more Hosting Servers, and create and maintain a Partner Web Site and a Community Web Site. The Partner Web Site and the Community Web Site may provide tools that are tailored for the needs of the Partner and the Hosting Customer, respectively, to participate in the Web Hosting Community. The Partner may provide an application, i.e. software program, to be integrated into the Web Hosting Community and the Hosting Customer may purchase and install the application onto its Hosted Web Site, which is stored on a Hosting Server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Warren Adelman, Michael Chadwick
  • Patent number: 9058393
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for storing one or more data records, comprising a text string and a monetary value associated with the text string, in a database. One or more server computers may receive an appraisal request for a domain name and identify one or more keywords in the domain name. The server(s) may then determine an existence of one or more matching data records wherein the text string in the record(s) match the identified keyword. If the matching data records exist, the server(s) may identify a keyword frequency count and a keyword monetary value for that keyword. A keyword appraisal value may be generated by dividing the keyword monetary value by the keyword frequency count. The appraisal value for all identified keywords may be added to the domain name appraisal and the domain name appraisal may be transmitted to a client computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Nicks, Patrick Lutwitze
  • Publication number: 20150154294
    Abstract: A dictionary, containing a first plurality of terms, phrases, tokens and/or words (hereafter terms) may be built and stored on a server computer. The dictionary may also store how frequently the terms appear and/or how frequently the terms appear together (co-occurrence) in a body of text. A second plurality of terms may be generated that are associated with a user. A plurality of domain names may be created by combining one or more terms in the second plurality of terms along with a domain name extension, Created domain names comprising frequently used terms and/or co-occurring terms, based on data from the dictionary, may be displayed on a website more prominently, before or instead of domain names for the user to select for registration than domain names that comprise less frequently used and/or less frequently co-occurring terms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Tapan Kamdar, Wei-Cheng Lai
  • Patent number: 9015263
    Abstract: A method includes calculating, by at least one server communicatively coupled to a network, a rating for a domain name. The rating is based in part on reputation data for the domain name. The method includes receiving, by the at least one server, a domain name query from a requester, and forming, by the at least one server, a listing of candidate domain names using the domain name query. An inclusion of the domain name into the listing of candidate domain names or an order placement of the domain name within the listing of candidate domain names is a function of the rating for the domain name. The method includes returning, by the at least one server, the listing of candidate domain names to the requester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Styler, Wayne Thayer
  • Publication number: 20150106687
    Abstract: A system and method for the generation of candidate domain names and potential website content are presented. The method includes receiving, by at least one server communicatively coupled to a network, a request to access or purchase access to a software application, the request being received from a user. Keywords associated with at least one of the user, a website of the user, and a business of the user may be generated and a candidate domain name relevant to the keywords may be generated. A drill-down survey may be presented to collect information from the user that the user thinks is relevant to the generation of a candidate domain name or potential website content. The survey responses are aggregated and then analyzed to generate one or more candidate domain names and/or to suggest potential website content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Michael McLaughlin, Tapan Kamdar
  • Patent number: 9009100
    Abstract: A Web site, through the use of a Rules Engine, determines an expertise level of a User for one or more topics on a Web page. The Rules Engine may analyze User related data, such as the search term used by the User to find the Web site, the past products purchased by the User, the path through the Web site taken by the User, the usage history by the User on the Web site, the demographics of the User and/or the self declared expertise level of the User, to determine an expertise level of the User for the topics on the Web page. A Display Engine may customize a Web page based on the expertise levels of a User so that topics on the Web page are presented in a manner most appropriate for the User. An Email Engine may be used to customize emails to the User so that topics in the email are presented in manner most appropriate for the User. A Support Entity Engine may also be used to route an incoming support inquiries from a User to an appropriate technical support person for the User.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Barbara J. Rechterman, Neil Proctor, Shawn Fitzpatrick, Bill Bennett
  • Patent number: 9002926
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for displaying, suggesting and registering available domain names on a client computer based on selected geographical locations from online mapping service software or a geo-location software. Any combination of an online mapping software and a domain name registration software may receive a selection of one or more geographical locations within a displayed geographical area. Alternatively, a location of a client computer may be detected using the geo-location software. One or more available domain names may be parsed for keywords related to the selected geographical area, and one or more available domain names may be suggested based on the selected keywords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Nicks, Adam Dicker, Robert Bacus