[Infowarrior] - VeriSign receives SiteFinder patent

[Richard Forno]

VeriSign receives SiteFinder patent

by Frank Michlick in Categories: Registries

As part of VeriSign’s (VRSN) 2001 purchase of eNic Corporation  
(operator of the .CC registry) the company became the owner of a  
patent application, which has now been granted on March 4th of this  
year under patent number 7,337,910 b2.

While the original patent application, at the time written by eNic’s  
CEO Brian Cartmell and eNic’s CTO Jothan Frakes, was used in order to  
resolve and offer non-existent domain names for registration, it would  
also cover Verisign’s Sitefinder application, implemented in September  
of 2003, causing any unregistered .COM/.NET domain to resolve to a  
parked page. VeriSign, was ordered by ICANN to cease the practice  
shortly after they introduced it.

The patent could potentially be used in order to request licensing  
fees from the operators of the .CM wildcard or DNS providers and ISPs  
whose nameservers respond to failed DNS queries.


http://www.domainnamenews.com/registries/verisign-receives-sitefinder-patent/1559