The Superhighway and Summit Date: 01/11/1994 The information superhighway or infobahn was a popular term used through the 1990s to refer to digital communication systems and the Internet telecommunications network. The Superhighway Summit was held at UCLA’s Royce Hall on 11 January 1994. It was the “first public conference bringing together all of the major […]
Soci.al Domain Sells for $50,000 September 17, 2011 Soci.al domain sells to Mark Monitor client. The domain name hack Soci.al has been sold for $50,000 according to host.al. The Albania country code domain name now sits on brand protection company Mark Monitor’s name servers. Moniker sold Social.com for $2.6 million in June to an undisclosed […]
DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM BLOCKING REMOVED FROM SOPA January 14, 2012 The proposed U.S. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has been watered down a little after protests that it would “break” security features of the Internet. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith announced yesterday he would strike a provision from SOPA that would compel Internet Service […]
Worst Spam Offenders Date: 05/23/2008 On May 23, 2008, ICANN issued Enforcement Notices against 10 Accredited Registrars and announced this through a press release entitled: “Worst Spam Offenders” Notified by ICANN, Compliance system working to correct Whois and other issues. This was largely in response to a report issued by KnujOn called The 10 Worst […]
Speek Buys Speak.com Domain Name August 2, 2011 Company upgrades its domain name to something users know how to spell. Web-based teleconferencing system Speek has purchased the domain name Speak.com from a familiar face in the domain name industry. According to whois records, the domain name was sold by Nat Cohen of Telepathy. The sales price […]
Softsquad Software – SQ.com was registered Date: 12/11/1986 On December 11, 1986, SoftQuad Software registered the sq.com domain name, making it 49th .com domain ever to be registered. SoftQuad Software was a Canadian software company best known for HoTMetaL, the first commercial HTML editor. It is also known for Author/Editor, the first specialized SGML editor, […]
SRI.com was registered Date: 01/17/1986 On January 17, 1986 SRI.com became the 8th registered “.com” domain. SRI International (SRI) is an American nonprofit research institute headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The trustees of Stanford University established SRI in 1946 as a center of innovation to support economic development in the region. The organization was founded […]
Shared registration system that supported multiple registrars started Date: 11/30/1999 Shared Registration System – SRS was created in 1999. The United States Department of Commerce took initiative to create SRS, under an amendment to its cooperative agreement with Network Solutions, Inc. Under this domain name registration system, competing ICANN-accredited registrars register domain names utilizing one […]
Siemens AG – siemens.com was registered Date: 09/29/1986 On September 29, 1986, Siemens AG registered the siemens.com domain name, making it 28th .com domain ever to be registered. Siemens AG is a German company headquartered in Berlin and Munich and the largest engineering company in Europe with branch offices abroad. For 155 years, the Siemens […]
Skype – Internet voice calls Date: 01/01/2003 Skype is an application that provides video chat and voice call services. Users may exchange such digital documents as images, text, video and any others, and may transmit both text and video messages. Skype allows the creation of video conference calls. Skype is available for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, […]
Schlumberger Limited – SLB.com was registered Date: 05/20/1987 On May 20, 1987, Schlumberger Limited registered the slb.com domain name, making it 75th .com domain ever to be registered. Schlumberger Limited is the world’s largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger employs approximately 100,000 people representing more than 140 nationalities working in more than 85 countries. Schlumberger has […]
Amazon.com buys SmartIsBeautiful.com Decembet 9, 2011 Amazon.com just bought SmartIsBeautiful.com The domain name was owned by BuyDomains until July 21, 2011, according to historical whois records. Amazon also recently filed two trademark applications for “SMART IS BEAUTIFUL.” in two different classes on an intent to use basis. One is for “Clothing, footwear, headgear” and the […]
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Date: 01/01/1982 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard for electronic mail (email) transmission. First defined by RFC 821 in 1982, it was last updated in 2008 with the Extended SMTP additions by RFC 5321—which is the protocol in widespread use today. SMTP by default uses TCP port […]
Sedo Hires Researcher Behind IDNX Aug 22, 2011 Domain Market place and parking provider Sedo has announced that Thies Lindenthal has been appointed Product Manager for Domain Pricing. Lindenthal, a seasoned internet entrepreneur and researcher, will bring his scientific expertise and his PhD in Real Estate to the domain pricing field, and work closely with […]
Sedo.com Raises Commission July 1, 2011 Sedo.com announced today that it is raising the commission rate of sale made through the it’s Marketplace (without broker assistance) to 15% from 10%. The typical sale on Sedo.com will now carry a 15% commission, up from 10%. The commission is still 10% if the domain is parked at […]
Seizing Domain Names Date: 01/01/2010 The congress encouraged this by passing the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act in 2010. ConsumerElectronics Association VP Petricone was worried seizure was a ‘blunt instrument’ that could harm legitimate businesses. In the early 21st century, the US Department of Justice began using a tactic of seizing domain names, based […]
IAC sells Sendori for $3 million January 20, 2012 IAC’s sponsored listing/traffic monetization unit sold. IAC has sold its Sendori unit for a total consideration of $3 million, nearly three years after buying the company, according to a recent SEC filing. When Sendori launched, it provided a way for domain name owners to monetize their […]
.aero .biz .coop .info .museum .name .pro Date: 08/15/2000 In September 1998, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was created to take over the task of managing domain names. After a call for proposals (August 15, 2000) and a brief period of public consultation, ICANN announced on November 16, 2000 its selection […]
Sex.com sold for $13 million in October 2010 Date: 10/01/2010 Sex.com internet domain name sold for $13m The domain was put up for auction in July 2010 when its former owner, Escom LLC, went bankrupt. Clover Holdings, an obscure company registered on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, put in the highest bid for the […]
SAGE Console – Early Computer Date: 01/01/1983 The Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) was a system of large computers and associated networking equipment that coordinated data from many radar sites and processed it to produce a single unified image of the airspace over a wide area. SAGE directed and controlled the NORAD response to a Soviet […]
Salesforce.com buys Work.com domain name July 30, 2012 Another confirmation that Salesforce.com bought Work.com domain name. The nameservers on Work.com have changed to Salesforce.com. Here are the nameservers currently on the Work.com domain name: In March We wrote about how all signs pointed to Salesforce having purchased the domain name. The whois record and brand […]
Santa Cruz Operations Inc – SCO.com was registered Date: 09/03/1987 On September 3, 1987, Santa Cruz Operations Inc registered the sco.com domain name, making it 86th .com domain ever to be registered. Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) was a software company based in Santa Cruz, California which was best known for selling three Unix variants for […]
DomainTools Launches Screenshots.com December 6, 2011 DomainTools, the recognized leader in domain name research and monitoring, today launched Screenshots.com, a website that allows users to view screenshots of what a website looks like now and throughout its history. Screenshots.com provides a web archive of images and data sets that can be used for discovering and […]