Re: [registrars] Backordering/Pre-register expired domains patent

[Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

as I read it the pattent covers domain registrations and probably 800
number reservation which would also mean there is alot of prior art like
my presentation in 1997 about a SRS in the IETF.

i'm not a an attorney and the above is not legal advise.

-rick


On Wed, 7 May 2003, Donny Simonton wrote:

> Not sure if anybody who is offering "backordering/pre-registering" of
> expired domain names has ever found this or not, but somebody already has a
> patent on the technology.  I got a random email from the owner of the patent
> today ask if we would be interested in using his patented technology.  After
> flipping through the patent, I thought everybody should know about it.  US
> Patent #6442549.
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> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?TERM1=6442549
> <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?TERM1=6442549&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HI
> TOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50>
> &Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50
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> Donny Simonton
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