ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,000, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Go Daddy Operating Co. LLC (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Computer-based systems configured for domain name central blocking systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by Ben Matthew Anderson (Copenhagen, Denmark), Tony Patrick Kirsch (Melbourne, Australia) and Quoc-Anh Nguyen Pham (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving an order to block a domain registration associated with a term, generating, on the term, a first and second to-be-blocked domain, the first to-be-blocked domain having a first domain extension and the second to-be-blocked domain having a second ...