"Verisign now has the ability to shut down any registrar that conducts and displays the results of multiple TLD availability queries for a domain name. And, of course, any registrar who reads this article is now on notice of that fact."
It's a pretty good bet that the patent office didn't understand the potential repercussions of this. As one of the commenters quipped: "The USPTO has been granting patents to the most mind-numbingly obvious concepts, as long as they involve computers or the Internet."
Check out the discussion at ICANNWatch.
Posted by Diana at May 15, 2003 08:02 AM