[66574] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Third Level" domains patented?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Fri Jan 16 05:42:05 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:43:48 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>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
