"Third Level" domains not patented

Fri Jan 16 14:47:58 UTC 2004

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 at bargle.tld and
>argle.bargle.tld.
>  
>
iki.fi has been doing exactly this since late 1997. (at least, maybe 
even earlier)

Pete