"Third Level" domains not patented

Robert Boyle robert at tellurian.com
Fri Jan 16 15:12:54 UTC 2004


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 at 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


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