The following was received January 10, 2001 From: "J. William Semich" In accordance with section 10 of RFC 2026, and although it has yet to submit a contribution to the Internet Standards Process, .NU Domain hereby states that it has filed for patent protection in connection with the MLDNS(tm) multilingual DNS technology described at: http://www.worldnames.net/mldns/ J. William Semich .NU Domain 266 Main St., Suite 31 Medfield, MA 02052 1 508 359 5600 ext 110