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Re: "Third Level" domains not patented

  • From: Petri Helenius
  • Date: Fri Jan 16 09:52:05 2004 
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 [email protected] and
argle.bargle.tld.

iki.fi has been doing exactly this since late 1997. (at least, maybe even earlier)

Pete