unitone said:

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Patent Busting Project campaign wins another victory against a bogus patent on Internet subdomains. Ideaflood claimed they invented the method of automatically assigning Internet subdomains. This method is the work of open source developers and exists in the public domain. Ideaflood tried to steal it and use it to extort money from various websites. Opensource was used to prove this method existed long before the patent troll's claim. http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/06/16