6 Mar
2001
6 Mar
'01
8:32 p.m.
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Steve Rubin wrote:
New.net is able to provide use of these new, top-level domains through innovative, patent-pending technology that allows the New.net names to live within the existing Internet domain name system.
patent-pending technology? oh brother.
Actually, that would be the part of it that lets users get to these new domains even if their ISP does not cooperate. Read the release again carefully. hint: browser plugin.
It doesn't matter what they use, there is almost 2 decades of prior art: cat /etc/resolv.conf to see an example. But I bet the USPTO issues the patent anyway.
Charles
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