Re: "Third Level" domains patented?
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.
As much as I dislike Verisign, this is silly.
Agreed. Here is some of my prior art from 1996 http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/01815.html and I may have mentioned it even earlier than this. I also consulted for the GNR during their application for the .NAME registry so there is a direct connection between the idea published in 1996 and the current .NAME registry which is the subject of the Verisign lawsuit. --Michael Dillon
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. I agree that's obvious and trivial, and there's debatably prior art from about 1980 in the way that the contact address is encoded in an SOA DNS record, but it's not about selling third level domains per se. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 330 5711 johnl@iecc.com, Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl, Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
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
At 09:41 AM 1/16/2004, you 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.
I agree that's obvious and trivial, and there's debatably prior art from about 1980 in the way that the contact address is encoded in an SOA DNS record, but it's not about selling third level domains per se.
We have been doing the same thing since 1995. R Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com | 888-TELLURIAN | 973-300-9211 "Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one." - Francis Jeffrey
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