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VeriSign Granted a Patent Covering SiteFinder

Posted by kdawson on from the submarine-acquisition dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Remember VeriSign's SiteFinder? Turns out that a couple of months back VeriSign was granted a patent on resolving unregistered domains. This came about thanks to its acquisition of eNic, operator of the .CC Domain. How long before Verizon, Earthlink, and OpenDNS are hit up for licensing fees?"

6 of 85 comments (clear)

  1. Better link by OMNIpotusCOM · · Score: 2, Informative

    Original discussion

  2. Re:Obligatory Behind-the-times Question by lakeland · · Score: 2, Informative

    opendns

    http://www.opendns.com/

  3. Re:Good! by Sledgy · · Score: 2, Informative

    You should check your OpenDNS settings, there is an option to disable the search feature or if you don't like it use another service.

  4. Re:Obligatory Behind-the-times Question by lakeland · · Score: 2, Informative

    I should have actually read your request properly before posting. OpenDNS is designed to give you almost exactly what you don't want.

    Sorry.

  5. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Informative

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  6. Re:Good! by davidu · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's not true. Look under "shortcuts" in your network preferences and turn off the proxy. It doesn't bother 99.99% of our users and it makes shortcuts and google work beautifully, as both should. But if you don't like it, turn it off. :-)

    -davidu

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