According to the article, this patent was issued in 1999. I owned a subdomain (ravenswood.sheridan.org) in 1994. Can you say "prior art"?
This is just another legal extortion attempt.
A company called Ideaflood that has been sending out letters to web hosting firms claiming that they own a patent on subdomains.
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