I would *not* be surprised to see this patent go through, although I think it should fail. Not that I don't think that it is a good idea (it is an excellent idea), but that the technology is trivial, and absolutely nothing new. Putting other "typo" tld's into the root with the same info takes minutes at most.
It is a problem though. As mentioned in "the other forum", I was involved in the "alternate root" efforts to set up alternatives to the ICANN root. There is enough traffic from the alternate root efforts to show up on the ICANN root radar as unresolved tld's. (ICANN hates the alt-root). The point is that the mod is trivial, and only uses existing technology.
OTOH, JB is as good as it gets as far as lawyers go, and the patent people are usually swamped. It also wouldn't solve the .cm / .com problem... Kevin Ham cornered that market for typos.
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