PayPal wants patent for system that scans newly-registered domains
Patent describes automated crawler and checkout simulator to spot fraud in newly-registered domains. PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has filed a patent application describing a method to proactively detect scam websites by automatically crawling newly registered domains and simulating checkout processes. U.S. patent application 18/521,909 (pdf), titled Automated Domain Crawler and Checkout Simulator for Proactive and Real-time [...]