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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. Patent everything by NETHED · · Score: 1, Redundant

    With everyone going out and patenting EVERYTHING, I'm going to take out a patent to patent the patent getting process.

    so YEA

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    1. Re:Patent everything by MImeKillEr · · Score: 0, Redundant

      ..and I patented a process for extorting money from people while claiming to patent the patenting process.

      Now you cough up the money.

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    2. Re:Patent everything by gilesjuk · · Score: 1, Redundant

      I'll patent the english language.

  2. domainsurfer.com by kisrael · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Dang, wonder how this will effect the great service provides.

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