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Re: Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”

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Post by bluetidepro »

alphazulu wrote: post #18
bluetidepro wrote: post #9

So, 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.

...that was just the first competitor example I could think of, I don't actually purchase my domains from there! :P Haha

Re: Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”

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Post by roothacker »

But that's just a small part of what the sites are doing these days, such as providing free renewal for the second year in case a user allows connecting its Facebook Account, and granting permission to the site to publish any promotion post on the wall of the user(which can be anything more than saying that user has registered an 'example.com' domain name on register.com).

They should have gone for a wider range of things.

Re: Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”

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Post by derrida »

Lasher wrote: post #20

Even 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…

IRC, Email?

Re: Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”

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Post by bobsy »

Wow! What an innovation. I would never have thought of doing this. Its a shame I won't be able to do this myself now.

Hang on? Isn't everyone already doing this for just about every other online venture? Someone registered via Facebook -> Post to wall. Hmmm. Maybe I should copy and paste their patent application and switch out "domain name registration" for any other service name.

I think it is silly for 2 reason's. Firstly this is not an innovation in any shape or form. People have been doing this for years with everything. It shouldn't have been approved. Secondly, GoDaddy have spent time and money gaining a patent which they can't enforce. Seems silly. I feel they just wanted to add "using patented technology" in their advertising.

Re: Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”

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Post by AhtiK »

bajsejohannes wrote: post #17

In 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.

Most of the registrars top up the time your domain has with the current registrar at the point of transfer. At least Namcheap does.

Be aware of the following 60-day restriction when planning the transfer from GoDaddy: http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/3560/transferring-do...

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