Thursday, 16 November 2006

da: (bit)
[livejournal.com profile] darkmagess pointed to a patent-busting effort by the EFF. They're looking for prior art (before 1999) of a website which:

  • uses wildcard DNS
  • HTML frames
  • and virtual domains


...to invalidate a patent by a company named Ideaflood.

Well, I think I know of a domain that does it, www.da.ru. That site offers free domains ending in "da.ru", which I've used (http://perlmonk.da.ru) since 2001.

It would be helpful if somebody could help me corroborate that it's prior art, as I don't read Russian :) Probably no more than 15 minutes web searching.

My evidence:

da.ru says the English version started in August 1999, but the site says copyright 1998-2006.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.da.ru suggests they had Russian-language services in 1998.

One of their users, http://colymp.udsu.ru/ , says copyright 1997-2006.

Can somebody browse around da.ru, or the archives, and help the EFF find prior art on this? Thanks!

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