new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play

Shawn McMahon smcmahon at eiv.com
Tue Mar 6 23:51:26 UTC 2001


On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 01:18:10PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> 
> 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.

Wow; they wrote a program that transfers information, then redirects a
browser (via hooks already built in to the browser) to a new web page?

Gosh, hope that patent goes though; novel ideas like that need protection,
otherwise every Tom, Dick, and Harry will think he can just go off and
write that code.

In about five minutes.  While drunk.

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