[ICANN-EU] Re: e2p "patent pending" on TLDs

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

James and all,

  This was to be expected Jamie.  Several of our affiliate companies
are doing something similar and quite a number of ISP's are very
interested as well.

James Love wrote:

> What do people make of this? Jamie
> 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Count Anthony Harrison [mailto:ip@e2p.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 10:59 AM
> To: icann@icann.org
> Cc: info@name-space.com; ed@totalnic.com; vince@totalnic.com;
> marshm@diebold.com; rosa.delgado@sita.int;
> Ken.hansen@neustar.com; project@abac.com; TLDapplication@affinity.com;
> hlubsen@idomains.com;
> to-asami@kddi.com; marshm@diebold.com; ncba@ncba.org
> Subject: Patent considerations that must be taken into account in the
> TLD process
>
> To the Board of Directors of ICANN
>
> FIRSTLY
>
> I wish to advise you of the existence of technology with patent pending
> ("The e2p Technology"), under which any new TLD issued by ICANN "WILL
> NOT WORK.".
>
> The e2p (tm) technology makes every word or letter available as a new
> TLD, so long as it was not a pre-existing TLD at the 1st of January
> 2000.
>
> The new TLDs are called eTLD (Extended Top level Domains), to
> differentiate them from gTLD and ccTLD.
>
> e2p Limited is currently in the process of negotiating the issueing of
> various TLDs to various organisations, which by way of example include
> phone (and all foreign language representations), .car (and all foreign
> language representations), and .art (and all foreign language
> representations).
>
> Of particular importance in these examples are the .phone and .art
> eTLDs, which each also seek separate patent protection. We are not
> considering registering just a few eTLDs - as would seem the strategy at
> ICANN. We are considering registering millions. Your applicants should
> be informed that under The e2p Technology that any new TLD that ICANN
> might issue after the 1st of January 2000 will not work. Your applicants
> should also be informed of the existence of technology with patent
> pending that will throw them in direct conflict with the ambitions of
> the owners of those technologies. By way of example, your applicants for
> tel and .phone are unlikely to be able to use them for telephone
> related purposes.
>
> The website at www.e2p.com is yet to open for eTLD registrations,
> however e2p Limited is available to negotiate the acquistion of any eTLD
> by your current applicants (or the community at large).
>
> The website at www.e2p.com contains some preliminary information that
> will be of use to prospective applicants.
>
> please note that the information on the website is currently restricted
> to generic topics, so that we (and our associates) can finish of filing
> various collaborative patent applications.
>
> We are, however, open to negotiating with any organisation that would
> seek to procure an eTLD. This of course will need to be under
> the cloak of a suitable Non Disclosure Agreement so that we can continue
> with our collaborative patent applications without fears of
> public disclosure.
>
> In a climate that reports 40,000 domain name registrations every day,
> e2p limited anticipate registering over a million new TLD to
> compliment the current range of gTLD and ccTLD.
>
> SECONDLY
>
> I wish to protest over the processes that you have used to seek new
> applications for TLD. You have advertised the new opportunity to
> create new TLD to "The Internet Technical Community" yet left the
> majority of "Internet Business Modellers" totally in the dark.
>
> The global transition of Old Media businesses to New Media businesses
> places such incredible demands upon the general business
> world that few large organisations have time to model, produce a
> business plan, seek the approval of the Board of Directors and then get
> a cheque signed for $50,000 ... in the short period that ICANN allowed.
> This is tantamount to the advertising of new products to
> supermarket shelf stackers without informing the management of their
> existence - then telling management after the cutoff for orders
> has closed.
>
> What Director in any large organisation keeps his eyes glued to the
> ICANN website year after year amid rumours that such TLD's as
> shop are coming yet failing to arrive - to find that in six short weeks
> the door has been opened and closed on them. Furthermore, your
> public comment period is so small - it often takes 4 to 6 weeks to
> prepare a proper report, so how can you expect expert quailty
> information when you don't provide an opportunity for experts to prepare
> their submissions. Your policies in these matters can only
> retard the internet's development at large and your ignorance of media
> communication channels is deplorable.
>
> Have no doubt that every business will have the opportunity of
> registering an eTLD with e2p limited.
>
> I have attached to this email some text that appears on the www.e2p.com
> website.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Anthony Harrison
>
> Director
>
> e2p Limited
>
> Excerpt from the website at http://www.e2p.com
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> {PRIVATE}LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM 10 October 2000
>
> e2p tm are pleased to announce the invention with patent pending of
> technology that makes every word available to complement the
> Internet's current Top Level Domain (TLD) system.
>
> Currently only two types of TLD exist, gTLD (General Top Level
> Domains) and ccTLD (Country Code Top Level Domains).
>
> Examples of gTLD are .com, .net and .org; examples of ccTLD are .uk
> (United Kingdom), .de (Germany) and .fi (Finland).
>
> e2p tm technology enables a new category of TLD called the eTLD.
>
> {PRIVATE}An eTLD (Extended Top Level Domain) is a new category of Top
> Level Domain whose technical effect makes every generic word and
> brandname available as a Top Level Domain.
>
> Examples of eTLD are .art, .phone, .music, .car, .company, .f1racing,
> freeserve, .microsoft, .netscape, ... indeed '.anything'.
>
> eTLD's are designed to extend the Top Level Domain System to the
> preferences of developers Hence the acronym 'e2p' - Extend To
> Preference!
>
> Technically, an eTLD is any word (or combination of letters) that did
> not pre-exist as a TLD at the 1st of January 2000. (Note: Special
> reservations have been made so that in such cases where the ISO3166
> list expands that new ccTLD's may be issued as eTLD's.)
>
> Developers should be aware of the implications of the 'did not
> pre-exist' exemption rule that is embodied in the above technical
> description. The technical affect of this is that under the e2p system
> browsers (and other types of client software) will not recognise any
> new combination that ICANN might try to issue as a TLD after the 1st
> of January 2000. Recent applicants to ICANN who wish clarification
> about e2p tm technology should contact e2p Limited at the address
> below.
>
> In a climate that reports around 40,000 new domain name registrations
> every day (with domain names acquiring resale values as high as $7.5
> million) e2p Limited anticipate selling upwards of a million eTLD's in
> the very near future.
>
> Further announcements (including how to register a new eTLD) will
> follow.
>
>  e2p Limited c/- Brooks and Co Hampton House High Street East
> Grinstead West Sussex RH19 3AW
>
> Copyright © e2p Limited 10 October 2000 Registered in England 4077763
> Patent Pending
>
> James Love  mailto:love@cptech.org http://www.cptech.org
> Consumer Project on Technology, P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
> voice 1.202.387.8030  fax  1.202.234.5176
>
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