RE: [registrars] Anyoen hear of this

[Paul Goldstone <paulg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I completely agree.

The mere fact that the "co-inventors" of this patent have only been 
involved in the domain name industry since 1998 speaks volumes.  They 
are most definitely not the first to have used this combination of 
URLs and Email.

"The principals of Nizza Group and the co-inventors of the patent are 
Troy K. Javaher and Frank M. Weyer, who have been involved in domain 
name and Internet businesses since 1998"

Like Chris, we too have used this format since before 1998.  I'm not 
sure about register.com but I'd bet that Netsol could find plenty of 
examples prior to 1998 too.  Anyway, I'm not that familiar with patent 
law.  Can a patent be revoked based on new findings?

~Paul
Domain-it!


At 12:16 PM 1/12/2004 -0800, Chris Ambler wrote:
>I'm stunned.
>
>I've had chris@xxxxxxxxxx as my email and http://chris.ambler.net (or a
>derivation of same) as my web address for almost 10 years now. (mid-1994, if
>I recall correctly).
>
>Back in '95, when I ran Punk.Net, we would regularly give out email of the
>form user@xxxxxxxx and set their web address at http://user.punk.net
>(indeed, this was back before "www" as a host name was prevalent). 
>
>I'm not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV), but if that's not prior art, I
>don't know what is.
>
>Christopher
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bhavin Turakhia
>Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:46 AM
>To: 'Registrars Constituency'
>Subject: [registrars] Anyoen hear of this
>
>
>Register.com and netsol sued for selling .name domains
>
>http://news.webhosting.info/t-835/
>
>Best Regards
>Bhavin Turakhia
>Founder, CEO and Chairman
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