Tag Archives: domain name patent

Tue 28th September 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Amazon.com Gets Patent for Selling and Leasing Domain Names - Amazon granted patent for domain name marketplace. Amazon.com subsidiary Amazon Technologies, Inc. was today granted U.S. patent number 7,805,379 for “Method and system for leasing or purchasing domain names”. This patent, which was applied for in December 2007, seems to conflict with a number of existing domain name marketplace and domain monetization technologies that were commercially available at the time the patent application was filed. One conflict in particular ... read more ...
Thu 21st May 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Another Silly Patent Application: 104 Domains - Company tries to patent geo-targeted directory that starts with “104”. Apparently it’s kooky patent day. This morning I wrote about a company trying to patent “virtual domain names“. Another patent application published today (pdf) is for a geo-targeted directory made up of domain names starting with “104”. Here’s the problem the patent tries to address, according to its author: Due to the recent hype, over 128 million domain names have been registered ... read more ...