[66580] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Third Level" domains not patented
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Boyle)
Fri Jan 16 10:13:30 2004
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:12:54 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040116144113.21145.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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@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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