Local Corporation (NASDAQ:LOCM), a leading online local media company, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company patent number 8,312,125, which covers a method and system for the bulk acquisition and development of multiple web domain names.
Issued on Nov. 13, 2012, the patent describes a system and method for enabling the bulk acquisition and management of multiple web domains.
The patent covers the technology related to the fulfillment of web domains.
The method includes collecting a set of domain names for bulk content development, some of which are derived from user-provided keywords; filtering the set of domain names based on matching the domains to most-often used search terms by consumers; automatically submitting domain names for purchase; applying a template to the web domain related pages; and inserting content in those pages.
“The domain name industry continues to grow, with the number of domain names registered worldwide expected to top 305 million by 20181,” said Heath Clarke, Local Corporation chairman and chief executive officer.
“This method is already being used as part of our Launch by Local SMB fulfillment platform and forms the basis for our site expansion into lead generation verticals. We’ve spent years developing our intellectual property portfolio, and we’re pleased that this key patent has issued.”
jose says
when you can patent round corners, all is said
Mike Mann says
Hope it doesnt interfere with any old patents http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=whoisplus&OS=whoisplus&RS=whoisplus
Louise says
Interesting patent [yours], @ Mike Mann! It reads like an excellent tutorial about domain name system.
visittheworld says
Is there an example of the sort of thing that is covered by this new patent?
When they say “bulk acquisition” does it mean that they can register both hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of a phrase , with more than one domain ending, all in one go ?
Am I right in assuming they can also register different words and phrases ….relating to the subject…. all at the same time?
Where does that leave domainers who may already have related domains, before this company has acted ?