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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. This might be a good thing. by Krapangor · · Score: 1, Troll

    The whole internet was developed by American taxpayers dollars - the TCP/IP/UDP etc protocols, the everywhere used BSD stack and many more things.
    So I don't have a problem when American companies get their IP rights secured by patents such that the invested taxpayers money will give some revenues.
    If forgein people don't like this they should invent their own network protocols. The American science community is not a tax financed charity organization.

    --
    Owner of a Mensa membership card.
  2. Re:We live in interesting times... by cyberformer · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's the fault of the government for allowing corporations to exist, and to influence the law.

  3. Re:Another example of overstepping logic by Aknaton · · Score: 0, Troll

    As well they should have.