I don't believe it. I'm rooting for NetSol.

[unixronin]

Much though we love to hate NSI and Verisign, one has to laugh and jeer at the pair of bottom-feeders who are sueing them for violation of a patent granted -- wait for it -- Dec 30, 2003, covering assigning URLs and email addresses differing only in '@' vs '.' after the username -- for instance, root@foo.com, root.foo.com.

You know, as found in uncountable mountains of prior art, not to mention, say, RFC1034?

"Weyer, who is a patent attorney, is handling this case himself.  He said that Network Solutions and Register.com have both been notified of the suit. Neither returned phone calls to comment on the lawsuit."

Well, yeah.  They probably haven't managed to stop laughing yet.  I'd say the chances of this ludicrous patent standing up in court are comparable to those of the proverbial nitrocellulose dog chasing the asbestos cat through Hell.

Y'know, it feels really weird to be on Netsol's side of an issue.  This might be a first.  I feel . . . tainted.