Synonym-enabled enhancements for matching and registering internet domain names

摘要

A program and method is disclosed for enhancing a domain search by increasing the range of search terms to selected synonyms obtained from a standard thesaurus program. Keywords are compared to the same words in a standard thesaurus program. The domain permutations considered by the search program are expanded to the synonym-enhanced keywords. By not only examining permutations of the explicitly given search terms, but also expanding the search to synonyms, an even greater range of domain names is offered to the user.