16 Jan
2004
16 Jan
'04
9:47 a.m.
John Levine wrote:
According to the article, somebody maanged to patent the selling of www.something.somethng.com. Which seems a bit assanine to me, since the ISP I worked for in 1993 offered custoemrs www.customer.ccnet.com.
Uh, no, that's not what the article said and it's not what the patent, which is linked from the article, says. The patent is on the tiny tweak of selling matching e-mail addresses and domains (it says URLs but their examples show domains) of the form argle@bargle.tld and argle.bargle.tld.
iki.fi has been doing exactly this since late 1997. (at least, maybe even earlier) Pete