Re:It's the Two Minutes Patent Hate, Again (Score 1)

Can you find prior art? A published description of using a single DNS wildcard for user's subdomains prior to 8/99?

So the technology was patented or just the method? The technology is described here: RFC1034 or RFC1035

So then we need an implementation that can take advantage of multiple subdomains using a wildcard, prior to 1999. This will show it's possible to do what the patent describes without inventing new technololgy /writing new software:

Apache mod_rewrite
So in 1997 it was definitely possible.

So we need someone actually doing it, so the method wasn't invented by them either (I've only done a quick search on google here)
These two links: Google Group, and http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/417/1998/2/50 /2275350/. So there you go, prior art, or at least close enough to prior art. The can't patent this technology or idea. The best they could do would be to perhaps claim copyright on a particular implementation, but I doubt that would hold up either.