Re: "Third Level" domains not patented

[Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>]

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