[66582] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Third Level" domains not patented
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Fri Jan 16 11:24:56 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:26:39 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>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'm sure there is prior art from the discussions in 1996
but I can't remember enough details to dig that up. However
here is something from 2 Jan 1997 that is clearly prior
art for the selling personal domain names to people in
the form first.last.something.
http://listes.cru.fr/wws/arc/isoc.nommage/1997-01/msg00017.html
Pass it on to anyone else who may be interested.
--Michael Dillon
