US Patent Issued to VeriSign on Sept. 22 for "Methods and systems for domain name registry lock" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,778, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Methods and systems for domain name registry lock" was invented by Sameer Thakar (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a method is performed by a domain name registry. The method comprises receiving, via a first communication channel, a request from a registrar for a temporary key associated with a domain name and transmitting a temporary key to the registrar. The temporary key is associated with the domain name. The method further comprises receiving, via a second communications channel, the temporary key and transmitting, ...