Russian-language assistance for the EFF please?
Thursday, 16 November 2006 07:49 am![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
- 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!