US Patent Issued to Proofpoint on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for discovery of brand-registered domain names" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,513, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for discovery of brand-registered domain names" was invented by Gaurav Mitesh Dalal (Fremont, Calif.) and Ali Mesdaq (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Taking a zero-configuration approach, a domain name discovery system utilizes, in an iterative process, WHOIS data and infrastructure data for a seed domain to automatically discover domain names having registration and/or infrastructure details that match those of the seed domain. Registration information such as a registered email address associated with a domain name disc...