Company wants patents for verifying a domain's title history and for its Fast Transfer system. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published two patent applications today that were filed by GoDaddy. The first is for a way to determine title of a ... Continue Reading5 Comments
BrandShield files patent application covering its brand protection tools
· ServicesApplication explains inner workings of BrandShield's technology. Last week Angie Graves, writing for Domain Name Wire, told the story of brand-protection company BrandShield. Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Verisign gets patent for Domain Name Exchange
· ServicesCompany proposes service in 2010 but abandoned idea. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has granted patent number 9,172,673 (pdf) to Verisign for "Systems and methods for domain name exchange". The system would allow someone to trade in their ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Symantec issued patent for rating domain registrars
· Domain RegistrarsDoes your registrars' reputation matter? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,130,962 (pdf) to Symantec for "Calculating Domain Registrar Reputation by Analysis of Hosted Domains". Symantec, which sells the web security ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Verisign gets patent for predicting domain name renewal rates
· ServicesA crystal ball for estimating domain name renewal rates. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has granted patent number 9,094,467 to Verisign for "Method and system for predicting domain name registration renewal probability". Simply: take a number ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Patent troll applies for domain name management patent
· Policy & LawIntellectual Ventures wants patent related to managing domain names and web hosting. Some big companies in the domain name space have lots of patents. Despite threats, no major players have tried to extract money out of their competitors. But ... Continue Reading14 Comments
An interesting Google domain name parking patent application
· Policy & LawIdea sounds a lot like zero click monetization. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office just published a Google patent application related to domain name parking. Named Systems and Methods of Providing Parked Domain Content, application 13/631472 ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Verisign wants patent for “Searchable Web Whois”
· Policy & LawCompany files patent application for improved whois searching across multiple registries. Verisign has filed a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a "searchable web whois". The application was filed in 2012 and just published ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
GoDaddy wants to patent domain suggestions based on geography, business type
· Domain RegistrarsPatents reflect techniques for better targeting domain name search results. GoDaddy has filed three patents for targeted domain name search results based on the user's location or business type. Two of the patent applications were filed in August ... Continue Reading2 Comments
GoDaddy gets another Domain Appraisal patent
· Domain RegistrarsPatent covers using comps for domain name evaluation. GoDaddy has been issued another U.S. patent related to domain name appraisals. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today issued patent number 8,909,558 for "Appraising a domain name using ... Continue Reading8 Comments