Earlier today, Vocaltec announced a sale to Karo Millennium J.P., L.L.C for $12 Million. That sale includes 11 Patents relating to Internet telephony as well as a domain name. As Vocaltec own a number of domain names, what has yet to be clarified is if internetphone.com is in, or out. My personal view, is that I’d pull it out and sell it at auction. The patents to be sold consist of nine US patents, one Israel patent and one Australian patent.

For those that don’t know, Vocaltec was a pioneer in the VOIP space in the early 90’s. Around 1995 I was using Vocaltec’s Internet Phone (with a headset connected up to my Soundblaster). It was crude, but it worked over my lightning fast 28.8k modem. How times have changed since then….