Verisign Granted DNS Lookup Patent

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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Re:Look on the bright side

[ePhil_One]

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"

link to patent

[Neophytus]

USPTO for 6,560,634

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