[66578] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Third Level" domains not patented
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Fri Jan 16 09:41:50 2004
Date: 16 Jan 2004 14:41:13 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
In-Reply-To: <OF0111310A.787CD106-ON80256E1D.003AB38F-80256E1D.003AB89B@radianz.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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.
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.
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