TRW Inc – TRW.com was registered Date: 07/09/1987 On July 9, 1987, TRW Inc registered the trw.com domain name, making it 79th .com domain ever to be registered. TRW Inc. was an American corporation involved in a variety of businesses, mainly aerospace, automotive, and credit reporting. It was a pioneer in multiple fields including electronic […]

Tim Schumacher to Leave SEDO December 5, 2011 Sedo co-founder Tim Schumacher to resign as CEO and transition to board of directors, Tobias Flaitz to become new CEO Sedo announced today that co-founder and CEO Tim Schumacher will be stepping down from the company at the end of January. He will transition to the company’s […]

Tim Schumacher to Leave SEDO December 5, 2011 Sedo co-founder Tim Schumacher to resign as CEO and transition to board of directors, Tobias Flaitz to become new CEO Sedo announced today that co-founder and CEO Tim Schumacher will be stepping down from the company at the end of January. He will transition to the company’s […]

More TLD Trademarks: .Law, .Kom, .Tom, .Construction, .Hub July 5, 2011 The “ticking time bomb” in new TLDs continues with no work from ICANN. New top level domain name trademark “frontrunning” continues as 9 more trademarks have been filed related to new TLDs. USM CHINA/HONG KONG LTD filed applications for .Hub, .Tom, Kom, and .Kom. […]

Telenet packet-switched network Date: 01/01/1974 Telenet was an American commercial packet switched network which went into service in 1974. It was the first packet-switched network service that was available to the general public. Telenet was an American commercial packet switched network which went into service in 1974. It was the first packet-switched network service that […]

Teltone Corporation – teltone.com was registered Date: 11/17/1986 On November 17, 1986, Teltone Corporation registered the teltone.com domain name, making it 42nd .com domain ever to be registered. Teltone were established in 1968 in Washington. The company produced telecommunications equipment including products that transmitted computer data over telephony infrastructure. Over time, the company increasingly developed […]

TI.com was registered Date: 03/25/1986 On March 25, 1986, Texas Instruments registered the ti.com domain name, making it 14th .com domain ever to be registered. Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is an American technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States, TI […]

The 2010’s Date: 01/01/2010 In 2010, ICANN approved a major review of its policies with respect to accountability, transparency, and public participation by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. This external review wasin support of the work of ICANN’s Accountability and Transparency Review team. 2010 A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) […]

The Internet in 2000’s Date: 01/01/2000 It is estimated that in 1993 the Internet carried only 1% of the information flowing through two-way telecommunication, by 2000 this figure had grown to 51%, and by 2007 more than 97% of all telecommunicated information was carried over the Internet. WHAT IS THE INTERNET ? The Internet is […]

Third Level Domains Date: 01/01/2002 A third-level domain is the next highest level following the second-level domain in domain name hierarchy. It is the segment that is found directly to the left of the second-level domain. The third-level domain is often called a “subdomain”, and includes a third domain section to the URL. In large […]

First commercial Internet domain name registered (Symbolics.com) Date: 03/15/1985 The first domain name registered was Symbolics.com. It was registered March 15, 1985, to Symbolics Inc., a computer systems company in Cambridge, making it the first .com-domain in the world. In August 2009, it was sold to XF.com Investments. It was a company best-known for developing […]

Tandy Corporation – tandy.com was registered Date: 12/11/1986 On December 11, 1986, Tandy corporation registered the tandy.com domain name, making it 49th .com domain ever to be registered. Tandy Corporation, was an American family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas. Tandy Leather was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store, and acquired […]

TCP/IP Goes Global Date: 01/01/1987 TCP/IP goes global (1989–2000) Between 1984 and 1988 CERN began installation and operation of TCP/IP to interconnect its major internal computer systems, workstations, PCs and an accelerator control system. CERN continued to operate a limited self-developed system CERNET internally and several incompatible (typically proprietary) network protocols externally. There was considerable […]

TCP/IP Date: 01/01/1981 TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet. It can also be used as a communications protocol in a private network (either an intranet or an extranet). When you are set up with direct access to the Internet, your computer is provided with a copy […]

TCP/IP protocol suite formalized Date: 01/01/1982 TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/Internet protocol) is the suite of communications protocols that is used to connect hosts on the Internet and on most other computer networks as well. It is also referred to as the TCP/IP protocol suite and the Internet protocol suite. Introducing the TCP/IP Protocol Suite “TCP/IP” […]

Tektronix – tek.com was registered Date: 05/08/1986 On May 8, 1986, Tektronix became the 16th company to register their domain tek.com Tektronix, Inc. “Tek” is an American company best known for manufacturing test and measurement devices such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment. Originally an independent company, it is now […]

Steve Crocker – Program Manager at ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) Date: 01/01/1970 Steve Crocker was a program manager at ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) Stephen D. Crocker (born October 15, 1944, in Pasadena, California) is the inventor of the Request for Comments series, authoring the very first RFC and many more. He received his […]

StumbleUpon Buys Stumbled.com November 6, 2011 Earlier StumbleUpon bought Stumblers.com, now it has picked up Stumbled.com. Stumbled.com currently has MarkMonitor company DNStinations as its owner in whois. This was the same company that helped the social sharing site purchase Stumblers.com for $6,000 back in September, so it’s highly likely that StumbleUpon is the buyer. The […]

StumbleUpon Buys Stumblers.com for $6,000 September 4, 2011 Social sharing site StumbleUpon has purchased the domain name Stumblers.com for $6,000. StubleUpon users are called “stumblers”. The sale was on Afternic’s sales list from the past week, although at the time it wasn’t clear who bought the domain name since it was registered to brand protection […]

Subnetting Operation Date: 01/01/1986 Subnetting Operation Subnetting is the process of designating some high-order bits from the host part and grouping them with the network mask to form the subnet mask. This divides a network into smaller subnets. For IPv4, a network may also be characterized by its subnet mask, which is the bitmask that […]

sun.com was registered Date: 03/19/1986 On March 19th, 1986, Sun Microsystems registered the sun.com domain name, making it one of the earliest Internet .com domains ever to be registered. Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services and that created the Java programming language, Solaris Unix […]