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Re: "Third Level" domains patented?

  • From: Michael.Dillon
  • Date: Fri Jan 16 05:43:56 2004 
>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.

>As much as I dislike Verisign, this is silly.

Agreed. Here is some of my prior art from 1996 
http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/01815.html
and I may have mentioned it even earlier than this.
I also consulted for the GNR during their application
for the .NAME registry so there is a direct connection
between the idea published in 1996 and the current
.NAME registry which is the subject of the Verisign
lawsuit.

--Michael Dillon