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On Sept 22, 2007 Joe Gebbia sent this short email to Brian Chesky about how they might make a few dollars to help with the rent. AirBnB was born. A design conference was coming to San Francisco, and hotel rooms were hard to come by, so they wondered about providing another option. I take a look...

On Sept 22, 2007 Joe Gebbia sent this short email to Brian Chesky about how they might make a few dollars to help with the rent. AirBnB was born. A design conference was coming to San Francisco, and hotel rooms were hard to come by, so they wondered about providing another option. I take a look...

Interviews provide insights directly from those involved in domain name sales, acquisitions and the industry. Nothing can quite replace hearing domain industry influencers speak in their own words. While several of the well known domain industry blogs and podcasts serve up interviews weekly, I...

Interviews provide insights directly from those involved in domain name sales, acquisitions and the industry. Nothing can quite replace hearing domain industry influencers speak in their own words. While several of the well known domain industry blogs and podcasts serve up interviews weekly, I...

Scotland acquired its own internet identity five years ago after a group of motivated Scots formed a not-for-profit company and applied to the the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the .scot (dotscot) domain. The process was not an easy one for a small NFP. We had...

Scotland acquired its own internet identity five years ago after a group of motivated Scots formed a not-for-profit company and applied to the the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the .scot (dotscot) domain. The process was not an easy one for a small NFP. We had...

We’re excited to introduce our new eBook which focuses on ARIN’s History and Services. We wanted to create a one-stop-shop for newcomers to learn about who we are and what we do in an easily digestible way. In this eBook, you will find information about various topics, including: How ARIN...

We’re excited to introduce our new eBook which focuses on ARIN’s History and Services. We wanted to create a one-stop-shop for newcomers to learn about who we are and what we do in an easily digestible way. In this eBook, you will find information about various topics, including: How ARIN...

Most people consider Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, who designed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in 1973, to be the inventors of the internet. During that time, the internet morphed out of ARPANet, a government project. However, it would be unfair to credit the invention of such a...

Most people consider Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, who designed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in 1973, to be the inventors of the internet. During that time, the internet morphed out of ARPANet, a government project. However, it would be unfair to credit the invention of such a...

An Australian anti-racism organization on Sunday harshly criticized two of the country’s technology firms after they put the internet domain name “AdolfHitler.com.au” up for auction. The Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC), which describes itself as “Australia’s leading anti-hate organization,”...

An Australian anti-racism organization on Sunday harshly criticized two of the country’s technology firms after they put the internet domain name “AdolfHitler.com.au” up for auction. The Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC), which describes itself as “Australia’s leading anti-hate organization,”...

I joined namePros over ten years ago as a hobbyist domainer - mostly to lurk around and be trigger shy about actually contributing. These past few months, I've been diving face first into the domain game once again. I really do love it... always have. After nearly a decade of not logging into...

I joined namePros over ten years ago as a hobbyist domainer - mostly to lurk around and be trigger shy about actually contributing. These past few months, I've been diving face first into the domain game once again. I really do love it... always have. After nearly a decade of not logging into...

A man loved the singer so much, he spent a decade collecting dreams about her. ... “I knew some people took me for an idiot,” he said. “Well, so what? For me, I believe that for something to exist on this scale within a popular culture, it cannot be a thing that doesn’t mean anything or doesn’t...

A man loved the singer so much, he spent a decade collecting dreams about her. ... “I knew some people took me for an idiot,” he said. “Well, so what? For me, I believe that for something to exist on this scale within a popular culture, it cannot be a thing that doesn’t mean anything or doesn’t...

... Whether it happened like that or not, the app store idea would eventually come to fruition, but it wasn’t originally called the AppExchange, as it is today. Instead, Benioff says he liked the name AppStore.com so much that he had his lawyers register the domain the next day. When Benioff...

... Whether it happened like that or not, the app store idea would eventually come to fruition, but it wasn’t originally called the AppExchange, as it is today. Instead, Benioff says he liked the name AppStore.com so much that he had his lawyers register the domain the next day. When Benioff...

Fifty years ago, a UCLA computer science professor and his student sent the first message over the predecessor to the internet, a network called ARPANET. On Oct. 29, 1969, Leonard Kleinrock and Charley Kline sent Stanford University researcher Bill Duval a two-letter message: “lo.” The intended...

Fifty years ago, a UCLA computer science professor and his student sent the first message over the predecessor to the internet, a network called ARPANET. On Oct. 29, 1969, Leonard Kleinrock and Charley Kline sent Stanford University researcher Bill Duval a two-letter message: “lo.” The intended...