Lookout, YARPP. Are you a blogger that uses Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)? There are a lot of similar plugins (hence the funny name). But Google apparently thinks it's novel, as the company has filed a patent application (pdf) for ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Go Daddy Wants to Patent Way to Monetize URL Shorteners
· Domain RegistrarsA way to make money off of shortened URLs? There's not a whole lot of money in shortening links. Go Daddy has devised a way to change that. The company filed a trio of patent applications (here's one) for methods of monetizing shortened URLs. The ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Go Daddy Wants Patents for Announcing Domain Registrations on Facebook
· Domain RegistrarsDomain name registrar files two patent applications for promoting newly registered domain names. The Go Daddy Group, parent company of domain name registrar GoDaddy, has filed a pair of patent applications related to announcing a new domain ... Continue Reading5 Comments
VeriSign Gets Patent Related to Internationalized Domain Names
· Policy & LawPatent is for method of registering and using IDNs. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted U.S. patent number 7,774,432 to VeriSign for Registering and using multilingual domain names. The patent application was a continuation of a 2001 ... Continue Reading3 Comments
GoDaddy Files Patent App for “Jointly Auctioning Expiring Domain Names”
· Domain RegistrarsRegistrar files patent applications related to helping owners of expired domains sell them. Domain name registrar Go Daddy has filed two patents describing a system for jointly selling an expiring domain name in conjunction with the current owner of ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Domain Title Insurance? There’s a (Patent) App for That.
· Policy & LawApplication filed nearly a decade ago covers domain name title insurance. Over the past few years, a number of domain industry experts have been calling for domain name title insurance. The basic idea is that a title search would be run on previous ... Continue Reading1 Comment
VeriSign Gets Patent for Suggesting Alternative Domain Names
· ServicesPatent describes system for providing alternatives to already registered domain names. When you search for a domain name at any major registrar, and the domain isn't available, the registrar will likely serve up a list of similar domain names that are ... Continue Reading5 Comments
IBM Wants to Patent Semantic Web Tag Clouds
· UncategorizedIBM files patent application for overcoming limitations of tagging. The past few years on the web have been all about tagging. Tagging blog posts, tagging products, tagging pictures, etc. Blogs often times represent their tags in tag clouds. But ... Continue Reading6 Comments
GoDaddy Scores Another Whois Privacy Patent
· Domain RegistrarsDomain name registrar firms up patents related to whois privacy. GoDaddy was today awarded U.S. patent 7,627,633 (pdf), a divisional patent for its previously awarded whois proxy patent 7,130,878. This patent for "Proxy email method and system" ... Continue Reading11 Comments
SnapNames Awarded Patent for “Demand based domain name auctionability”
· Expired DomainsDomain auction site awarded another patent. Domain name auction platform SnapNames has been awarded U.S. patent 7,627,628 (pdf) for "Demand based domain name auctionability." The patent's abstract describes a system that triggers a domain as auction ... Continue Reading6 Comments