More and more certified letters are being sent.

http://simba.aserver.net/letter/

Absolutely right, 90% of sub.domains tgp added in trade script are cheaters :2 cents:

Hmm. If you read through the "claims" there is no mention of this patent applying exclusively to websites or http, just domains/wildcards/storing and serving content.

Doesn't this apply to FTP sites as well? If that's the case, you can probably find prior examples of this sort of thing going back decades...

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Come on dude don't be making me shit in my shorts.
I'm going to bill you for the clorox.

You need to take the "s" out of "decades". Domain names have only been around for about a decade. Of course I could be wrong.

my patent to post on message boards is almost finished.

They were in use when I started at university - that was in 1991.

Shouldn't be too hard, I found my personal web page (which is on a subdomain) on web.archive.org. Unfortunately it was first indexed in December 1998. I am sure there are plenty of other sites that existed before then which can be verified with the wayback archive.

edit: here you go.

http://web.archive.org/web/199611110...://www.ml.org/

You used to be able to get a free ANYNAME.ml.org subdomain.

I don't really understand how things like popups and subdomains can be patented by people so many years after they have been created, by someone who had nothing to do with their idea or creation.

Is there no one in the patent office who is at all up to date with technology? How can they approve patents on things they do not fully understand, shouldn't there be someone to at least search for prior art as far as technology is concerned? It's not like the internet was a new thing in 1999.

The patent office is ran by a bunch of fucking monkeys just like this country.

Mark

Fuck Brian Shuster

Let me guess! It's Bush's fault!

No it is your fault for voting for Bush, lol

This is still only the beginning of what is to come from what I know. Acacia (and those who have settled with them) have done nothing except open up the floodgates for more and more opportunistic vultures to pick at our industry.



What is it going to take to make some of you realize that settling isn't the correct option? What?


Fucking bankruptcy? What?

A domain by definition is a subdomain.

domain.com

domain is a subdomain of the .com TLD.

How can you invent something that was already invented?

It'll never fly.

Someone needs to give the US Patent system a major enema.

KC you damned anti-dentite! How you been?

I agree completely. How is this different than paing "protection money" to gangsters?

Doing well man.. You going to AZ for the forum?

let's catch up on ICQ.

The internet needs a mafia for this kind of stuff. Sometimes legalese goes too far.

100 People fucking Brian :)

From what I recall, Mindspring mapped 3rd level domains to user's homepages long before 1999 - so did some other ISPs.

In regards to 3rd level domains, categories, and user assigned 4th level domains...that was being done way before 1999 too. Ie. the "original" .US TLD - which comprises categories, geography, and personal identifiers - including user named sub-domains.

Ron

I doubt this crap will pass :2 cents:

That's what people have been saying all along about the acacia patent, yet so far it has not been invalidated. If anything this is another case that will be drawn out for years while people either fight it or fold and settle, with a gaggle of other opportunistic patent-holders waiting in the wings to take their chomp at us.


Settle with everyone, and watch your profit go down the crapper! Weee!

I'm gonna patent everything i see!:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Interesting

The patent isn't on subdomains specifically, but on offering hosting where the username matches the subdomain. As in username.hostcompany.com


New article on SlashDot about the subject:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/03/30/0240215.shtml?tid=103&tid=126&tid=155&tid=95&tid=9 9

EXACTLY.

So what's the story on this guy's XPICS company?

All I remember is that the affiliate program paid .20 per click back in '98. :1orglaugh

oh well, there are always gonna be scammers in all bussinesses.......

From what I recall, Mindspring and others were offering that long before 1999.

Ron

Just random shit pulled here.

http://web.archive.org/web/199612220....netscape.com/

http://web.archive.org/web/199708052...com/index.html

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://support.microsoft.com

Bunch of others. Easy to tell this guy just hopes some people just pay and not fight. But also looks like he will say he didn't patent subdomains, just a way to create subdomains for hosting providers.