US Patent Issued to VeriSign on May 26 for "Determining a top level domain from a domain name" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,053, issued on May 26, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Determining a top level domain from a domain name" was invented by Kevin McGarvey (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processing system of a device including one or more processors. The system also includes a memory system including one or more computer-readable media. The one or more computer-readable media contain instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations. The operations include reading, at a domain name system (DNS) server, top-level domain (TLD) information from a TLD l...