Verisign, a significant area title registry that controls the ‘.com’ and ‘.internet’ domains, has acquired a patent that applies blockchain tech to
Verisign, a significant area title registry that controls the ‘.com’ and ‘.internet’ domains, has acquired a patent that applies blockchain tech to domains.
The US Patent and Trademark Workplace (USPTO) granted patent quantity 10,721,060 to Verisign on July 21.
Addresses as a substitute of numbers
Titled Area title blockchain person addresses, the brand new patent outlines some main advantages and technical benefits related to registrants using their area title system (DNS) domains in a blockchain community.
It could possibly present the power to make use of domains bought within the conventional DNS setting in a blockchain setting. Verisign defined that by making use of this expertise, the registry permits customers to show conventional domains right into a “blockchain person handle” and work together with different members on the community.
The expertise permits customers to make use of domains as “their blockchain presence,”:
“If a registrant owns instance.com, they could want to have the ability to use it as their blockchain person handle. This permits a human pleasant method to work together with different blockchain members by utilizing domains as addresses as a substitute of numbers […] it permits blockchain members to make the most of their net presence, e.g., instance.com, as their blockchain presence.”
Extra instruments for safe two-factor ID
The patented strategies embrace administration of private and non-private keys via a DNS registry on the blockchain community in addition to working requests for the so-called “proof of registrar” information. The system permits a blockchain community to obtain and retailer the info concerning the area title and its reference to an present blockchain person handle for the registrant.
It could possibly additionally allow safe two-factor identification by “consulting the blockchain for a given blockchain community.” This can unlock extra instruments to confirm person identification:
“For instance, if a given handle on a blockchain has an connected telephone quantity or electronic mail handle, these could possibly be consulted on chain as a supply to ship a message to, to verify proof of handle possession.”
The area title trade just isn’t new to the crypto and blockchain expertise thus far. Firms like Unstoppable Domains and MyEtherWallet have been collaborating to allow the crypto neighborhood to purchase ‘.crypto’ domains that present decentralized domains. In March 2020, well-liked browser Opera grew to become the primary main browser to combine the ‘.crypto’ area extension.