A method and apparatus is presented where similar Internet site names are
handled in an improved manner at a Domain Name Server. In one example, a
first site name from a computer system coupled to the Internet is
compared to a variety of site names through a regular expression
comparison. Thus, a site that has a number of similar site names (and
potentially new site names that will have a similar format) will be
better able to handle attempted accesses to site names that should
logically go to its site.