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Verisign Granted DNS Lookup Patent

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the whois-listening dept.

mattgick writes "The Register has a story on how verisign was granted the DNS lookup patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,560,634). Scripts which check to see if a domainname has been taken would be in violation with this patent. A discussion on this subject is going on over here."

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  1. Re:Look on the bright side by ePhil_One · · Score: 5, Informative
    The patent covers looking up two or more potential domain names at once, so if I looked up ePhil.com and ePhil.net at the same time I would be violating it. Just resolving IP addresses is something else entirely.

    Misleading topic heading.

    Yes, Slashdot is/has decended to the ranks of the NY Post, no need for accuracy when you can just Troll. Its a shame because the patent is one of those blindingly stupid and obvious things. But I bet there's no prior art because this is the sort of thing a registrara needs to do, and prior to 1998, there weren't any that handled > 1 TLD besides Verisign.

    I wonder if this falls under the "abuse of a state granted monopoly"

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  2. link to patent by Neophytus · · Score: 4, Informative

    USPTO for 6,560,634

    I don't have the time, but could someone answer the above?

  3. Re:We live in interesting times... by DocDendrite · · Score: 3, Informative
    How did things get this bad?

    Unregulated campaign finance contributions.

    Most Slashdotters agree that beligerant corporate behavior should be stopped by the government. Well it's not the laziness or ignorance of the politicians that's preventing this.

    The "hard money" contributions documented at OpenSecrets.org pale in comparison to the enormous "soft money" contributions made to a political party on behalf of a candidate. The power of the DMCA, MPAA, RIAA, MSFT, et al. can be explained by this.

    Recent legislation attempted to curb this but has been meeting resistance.

    -DD