[66579] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Third Level" domains not patented
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Jan 16 09:49:32 2004
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:47:58 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040116144113.21145.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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@bargle.tld and
>argle.bargle.tld.
>
>
iki.fi has been doing exactly this since late 1997. (at least, maybe
even earlier)
Pete
