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VeriSign Granted a Patent Covering SiteFinder
Posted by
kdawson
on Mon May 05, 2008 09:15 PM
from the submarine-acquisition dept.
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?"
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Better link (Score:3, Informative)
Server (Score:2, Funny)
Oh the Humanity (Score:5, Insightful)
Flash Wars: Adobe in the History and Future of Flash [roughlydrafted.com]
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None of the presidential candidates, AFAIK, has said peep #1 about patent reform. Hm.
That might be a good thing... (Score:4, Insightful)
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The chance of Verisign blocking this kind of behavior, except to protect the turf so that only they can do it, is so small as to be the same of making SCO admit they lied about owning UNIX.
But prior art... (Score:2, Funny)
Good! (Score:3, Insightful)
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-davidu
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This COULD be a good thing, done properly (Score:2, Insightful)
That would dramatically reduce the amount of this DNS perversion going on.
Not that this is going to happen, but it's an interesting prospect to think about. Heaven forbid the system be taken advantage of to the benefit of the people.
Could, but won't (Score:2)
If they make it something reasonable, they get to collect license fees. Money for no work. If they use your idea they get nothing except respect from the community.
I know which one they're going to pick.
Obligatory Behind-the-times Question (Score:4, Interesting)
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http://www.opendns.com/ [opendns.com]
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Sorry.
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designed to, yes, but it's not mandatory.
i've been using OpenDNS for the last month or so and have found it to be very good -- much, much faster than my ISP's DNS, and reliable. i get the standard "not found" messages rather than "useful" search results and ads if i type a wrong address, since i've switched off all OpenDNS's extra features for my IP. there were one or two features which looked like they may have been useful which had to al
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I'm trying to avoid going to the root servers, which I understand is considered to be rude if you're just joe schmoe and don't have a bunch of users behind you.
Thus, even running my own cache (actually, I'm using dnsmasq for local resolution) I still need forwarders. I just don't want to use the ones from my ISP.
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Anyway, primary the root zozne yourself. Run a copy of
Somebody ought to look in the wayback machine for alternic.net. I have a vague memory of Kashpureff doing this well before 2001.
Talk abourt irony. (He went to jail for hac
Many Reasons this is Appalling (Score:5, Interesting)
Another reason this patent shouldn't have been accepted is that wildcard domains were a standard capability, and having a web server try to provide useful information in a 404 page was probably a known capability, or at least obvious to someone skilled in the trade. Responding to a DNS request with the IP address of a web server that isn't the one the customer was looking for might not count as "obvious to someone skilled in the trade" because it's obviously wrong.
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on a related net neutrality issue: (Score:4, Interesting)
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The Federal Communications Commission has recently encountered mounting scrutiny in response to its broad deregulatory practices. Public frustration regarding the FCC has peaked at a time of fierce debate on net neutrality.
In a memo obtained Tuesday by The Washington Post, 30 current and former commission employees complained about the leadership of FCC Chairman Kevin Martin.
Staff members observed that "the FCC process appears broken and most of the blame appears to rest with Chairman Martin."
The memo, written to chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee John Dingell and chairman of the House Energy Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Bart Stupak, increases pressure on the FCC chairman, who, in particular, has been accused of a rigidly anti-regulatory, pro-corporate approach. Many critics assert that his approach has contributed to a lack of oversight over network providers.
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What's a little deregulation between friends, right?
I sincerely hope they sue Earthlink... (Score:3, Interesting)
It is getting ever more difficult to find DNS that just works as it should, instead of coming up with a result for every request, even if it has to make one up.
*mutter* *mutter* *mutter*
Tomas
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VeriSign bought Thawte and GeoTrust.
And other than VeriSign, whose code signing certificates are accepted for 64-bit kernel mode code in Windows Vista? Comodo's certificates aren't [tech-pro.net].