How is this patentable? Isn't this just API stuff?
Almost everything is patentable. The real test is holding the patent up in court.
I assume this will only apply to companies in the US. Unless your name is Kim dotcom
Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”
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#12This is genius, announcing registrations on Facebook. I have never seen such a thing.
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#13Patent trolls have had open season on engineers because the lawmakers and moneymen don't listen to us.
Going after marketers, however, will be their undoing.
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#14I could expect this out of Go Daddy, but should the people approving this patent also be blamed?
I guess you could try blaming the rubber-stamping machine they're clearly running these applications through, sure.
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#15I have JUST patented announcing the patent of announcing a domain name registration on a social website...
You all owe me £1m each ... (I also patented talking about it).
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#16RIP Patent System...
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#17In gmail, I filter every email from GoDaddy and apply label "change registrar", just so I'll remember when my domains expire. I'm not really liking most things I see from GoDaddy; perhaps with the exception of pricing.
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#18So, say I buy a domain from Register.com and then manually post it on my Facebook that I bought this, that isn't Register.com's fault right? This seems pointless because you could still just encourage people to do it manually, in another part of the purchase flow, or maybe even a week or two after? It seems to me that the patent just blocks you from having an official Facebook share button or Tweet ( or something lik…
But what are you doing buying from Register.com? Yeesh.
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#19The patent system is like a bug in a software that all your clients rely upon and will never let you fix. I expect peace in the middle east to happen before the patent system gets scrapped.
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#20Even scarier is their definition of social network. From the patent document:
"Social networking websites may comprise internet-based social networking services that focus on building and verifying online social networks for communities of people who may share interests and activities, wish to communicate with each other efficiently, and may be interested in exploring the interests and activities of others, and which necessitates the use of software applications".
In addition to Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn and Facebook they also list YouTube and Flickr as specific examples. This thing is pretty far reaching.