Reglikedomain industry desk

GoDaddy’s latest patent applications

Firm adds to its stack of pending patents.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has just published a handful of patent applications filed by GoDaddy.

Methods and Systems for Recommending Packages of Domain Names for Registration (application 14/500711) is a continuation of patents I wrote regarding earlier this month. It essentially describes a way to determining which domain names a user will want and presenting them as a package.

Two others are related to submitting an offer for a domain name when it is by now registered: System for Communicating an Offer for a Domain Names (application 13/973823) and Method for Communicating an Offer for a Domain Name (application 13/973819). If the domain name you want is by now registered, the registrar will ask if you want to submit an offer on the domain name.

The general crux of these two patent applications doesn’t seem novel (at least looking at what registrars have been doing for the past five years or so), but perhaps there are some claims within them that are unique.

Also on the wire

Other reporting from the domain desk.

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