US Patent Issued to VeriSign on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for preserving privacy of a registrant in a domain name system ("DNS")" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,243, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for preserving privacy of a registrant in a domain name system ("DNS")" was invented by Andrew Fregly (Reston, Va.) and Swapneel Sheth (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a computer system is provided for executing the method for providing a registration data directory service (RDDS). The method includes obtaining, at a RDDS, a RDDS query comprising a location assertion from a RDDS client from a RDDS client; providing, by the RDDS, a request for personally identifying information (PII) for the RDDS query from a privacy pr...