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Re:Nathan Myhrvold’s Patent Extortion Fund Is Reaping Hundre... by awt on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @03:46PM (#307442)
It's broken in the same sense that the domain name registration system is broken. Spend a little money and you can roadblock a lot of ideas.
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Re:Nathan Myhrvold’s Patent Extortion Fund Is Reaping Hundre... by ryanwaggoner on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @04:19PM (#307483)
Very few good ideas are dependent on getting a certain domain name.
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Re:Nathan Myhrvold’s Patent Extortion Fund Is Reaping Hundre... by eru on Thursday September 18, 2008 @06:32AM (#308065)
But you can roadblock a lot of good domain names with a little money.
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