DomainTools granted patent for reverse IP method.
DomainTools‘ parent company Euro Convergence, SARL has been granted a patent for “Reverse IP method and system”. U.S. patent number 7,797,410 was invented by company founder Jay Westerdal.
The invention is for a “new and improved domain name searching method and system” comprised of the following steps:
(1) downloading all zone files, public and/or non-public, associated with one or more host names
(2) performing reverse DNS on IPs associated with said host names in associated root servers and name servers
(3) crawling websites associated with said host names and seeking new hosts on known websites in different TLDs
(4) indexing all new host names found
(5) resolving the associated IP address with each host name, and with optionally appending “www†thereby
(6) storing DNS entries and indexing same while logging their association with host names
(7) repeating any of steps (1) through (6) one or more times.
The patent application was filed in 2004.
Great says
I hope mine gets approved too:
Method of turning the lights on via a light switch
Meyer says
I’ve never understood why patents are
allowed for search procedures and
tabulation processes like this.
Chris says
You can patent that?!! What a sad state of affairs. Maybe I can patent my new placement of pants on legs system.
Ridiculous.