Abstract:Domain name system (DNS) redirect is expected to be the emerging functionality to perform a value added services for users by the Internet Service Providers (ISP) and the DNS Application Service Providers (ASP). This paper specifies the error description as the list of suggested domain names other than the original one, which are sorted by their relevance. Two handover processes for the redirected server is proposed, which can facilitate finding the suggested domain names both correctly and timely. Besides, the request handling algorithm is proposed using the prolonged resource records. The message structure of the redirect is defined to accommodate the redirect IP information in the DNS protocol.