| Title | Domain-Name Industry Stockpiling Patents | |
| Date | Thursday March 05 2015, @05:11PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| from the I'm-sure-that-it-will-be-in-our-interests-/sarcasm dept. | ||
A raft of patent applications has presaged a possible legal war in the rapidly expanding domain-name industry.
This year alone, market-leading registrar GoDaddy has applied for no less than eight patents specific to the DNS world, covering everything from searching for a domain name to register, to recommending a specific domain based on user input.
At the same time, market-leading registry Verisign has applied for a wide range of patents, many covering more technical aspects of the domain name system and also covering commercially valuable ideas like enhanced privacy protections (20150058999) and abuse protection (20150047033).
[...] In the past six months, the number of internet top-level domains has more than doubled as 500 dot-words – from .london to .xyz – have been added to the roughly 300 that already existed. That number will grow by another 500 in the next six months.
The result has been a jump in competition in the registry market, and the domain-selling arena (the registrar market).
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