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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. Holy Crap. by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What do you say to that?

    *sigh*

    Yes, it may be short and unworthy of a reply, but it isn't really offtopic, is it?

    --
    That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
  2. Re:We live in interesting times... by Cyno · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How did things get this bad? Why aren't we meeting on a weekly basis to take action against this annoying destruction of the public domain?

    First how did things get this bad.. We let it happen. We were walking TV and all of a sudden the US passed the DMCA and a bunch of patents and.. No, actually its always been this bad. America has always been the property of Ford.

    On to your next question. We are meeting on a weekly, daily, hourly basis to discuss these things. Its called slashdot. :)

    Unfortunately we have no political power. But we do have far more "word of mouth" power.

    But I have no faith in anyone ever fixing the system because almost noone knows what the verb love really means. Nobody understands that concept.

    If you love someone you could never give them the death penalty or cut off their hand or hurt them physically in any way. Even if they are a terrorist. See, you don't understand what it really means to love your neighbor.

    I define human as an intelligent being that loves all other humans, and right now the lot of you look like a bunch of animals to me.

  3. Re:Alternative Root by Alethes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OpenNIC is your friend.