Calculating domain registrar reputation by analysis of hosted domains

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9130962-B2
Application number	US-16475108-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 30, 2008
Priority date	Jun 30, 2008
Publication date	Sep 8, 2015
Grant date	Sep 8, 2015

Abstract

Reputations of domain registrars are calculated based on the hosting of risky domains. The more undesirable domains a registrar hosts, the lower is its reputation. The risk level of the hosted domains is also a factor in determining the reputation. When a user attempts to access a hosted domain, the calculated reputation of the hosting domain registrar is used in determining what security steps to apply to the access attempt. The worse the reputation of the hosting registrar, the more security is applied, all else being equal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A machine implemented method for calculating reputational scores concerning domain registrars, the method comprising the steps of:
maintaining, by a computer, reputational scores for a plurality of domain registrars;
maintaining, by a computer, a list of known undesirable domains;
for each undesirable domain on the list, determining, by a computer, a domain registrar that hosts that domain;
adjusting, by a computer, a reputational score concerning that…

Assignees

• Hernacki Brian
• Satish Sourabh
• Symantec Corp

Inventors

• Hernacki Brian
• Satish Sourabh

Classifications

• H04L63/105 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/1433

  Electricity · mapped topic