Tag Archives: verisign patents

Wed 19th February 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Verisign gets obvious for Recovery of a Failed Registry - Verisign adds to patent war chest. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Verisign patent number 8,656,209 for “Recovery of a Failed Registry”. I wrote about the patent application in 2012. Verisign describes the system as one that “enables a registry recovery service to retrieve zone files from a target registry, archive the zone files, publish the zone files to a managed DNS server, reconcile ownership of the zone files, and publish the zone files ... read more ...
Fri 25th January 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Heads up, competing registries: Verisign competence start reporting the patents - Verisign evaluating how to make money from its patent portfolio. Competing domain registries, watch out. Much of yesterday’s Verisign investor conference call was focus on patents and Verisign figuring out how to profit from them. While saying it was too early to talk specifics, Verisign CEO James Bidzos said the company has many options. We have a large number of patents — a portion of our patents read directly on registry operations so we think that there are ... read more ...