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Re: "Third Level" domains not patented
From: Robert Boyle <robert () tellurian com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:12:54 -0500
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.
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Current thread:
- "Third Level" domains patented? Scott Call (Jan 15)
- Re: "Third Level" domains patented? Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Jan 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: "Third Level" domains patented? Michael . Dillon (Jan 16)
- Re: "Third Level" domains not patented John Levine (Jan 16)
- Re: "Third Level" domains not patented Petri Helenius (Jan 16)
- Re: "Third Level" domains not patented Robert Boyle (Jan 16)
- Re: "Third Level" domains not patented John Levine (Jan 16)