Patent describes way to suggest domain names based on text inputs.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today granted patent number 12,399,944 (pdf) to GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) for “Recommending domains from free text”.
GoDaddy filed a similar application in 2018 but abandoned it. It filed the new application in 2020.
The concept is straightforward: use free-form text to generate domain name ideas.
One approach is scanning documents for keywords. For example, this could be set up to suggest domains based on text entered while building a website. It might analyze a website’s “about us” section and recommend relevant domain names.
This excerpt from the application sums it up nicely:
Once the user hosting account is established, the user may upload the files to the repository, or otherwise transfer the files through the network for storage. The disclosed system may then use the provided user input, and/or content within the provided files, to automatically identify the main concept from a collection of identified keyword within the rich amount of text contents, while eliminating other irrelevant concepts. These irrelevant concepts may include, as non-limiting examples, stop words, grammatically incorrect phrases, and terms or phrases common to all websites (e.g., “about us”).
Thus, the disclosed system determines how to generate meaningful domain name recommendations based on relevant concepts, which also remove irrelevant keywords or phrases, thereby providing one or more domain names that are shorter and easier for the user to remember.Wei-Cheng Lai
The patent lists Wei-Cheng Lai and Wenbo Wang as inventors.
