CREATING AND USING A TLD MARKUP LANGUAGE

摘要

Domain name Registrars typically offer for registration domain names that have a variety of different Top-level Domains (TLDs). Each TLD may have different business requirements (rules the Registrar follows when registering a domain name having the TLD). A Registrar must reconfigure its functions when the Registrar wants to offer a new TLD or when business rules change for a TLD already being offered by the Registrar. The present invention allows the Registrar to easily reconfigure its functions to accept new business rules by storing the business rules in an electronic document stored in a database. The electronic document is preferably written in a TLD markup language (TLDML).

主权项

1. A method, comprising the steps of:
a) creating a structured markup language; b) constructing or receiving a structured markup language document written in the structured markup language that describes a plurality of business requirements for a top-level domain (TLD); c) using the structured markup language document to configure a system to register a plurality of domain names having the TLD; and d) upon receiving a registration request from a Registrant for a domain name having the TLD, the system registering the domain name to the Registrant.