In those circles where Internet prognostications abound and policy makers flock to hear grand visions of the future, we often hear about the boundless future represented by "The Internet of Things". This phrase encompasses some decades of the computing industry's transition from computers as esoteric piece of engineering affordable only by nations, to mainframes, desktops, [...] Continue reading →

April 30, 2015 – Boston, MA – EnCirca, Registrar for the Dot Pharmacy Registry is now processing .Pharmacy domain registrations from Dispensing Pharmacies who have been verified by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP). The Limited Registration phase for Dispensing Pharmacies runs until June 2. The Dispensing Pharmacy limited registration period is the [...] Continue reading →

Twitter has been under pressure for the last couple days as a disappointing earning release caused the stock to take a dive. The dive started earlier than normal for a bad earnings report. Companies usually wait til after the close for release and full dissemination. A Tweet that went out Tuesday while the market was [...] Continue reading →

Secret financial projections were among 330 pieces of confidential data revealed by an ICANN security bug. Over the last two years, a total of 19 new gTLD applicants used the bug to access data belonging to 96 applicants and 21 registry operators. That’s according to ICANN, which released the results of a third-party audit this [...] Continue reading →

Old name led to a “word-of-mouth” issue for company. Technology-driven real estate startup TripleMint just raised $1.65 million from investors. It’s also changing its name from one that caused it problems. TripleMint used to be called Suitey, a name that I don’t know how to say, and if someone told me about it I wouldn’t [...] Continue reading →

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the decommissioning of the NSFNET backbone on April 30 1995, an important milestone in the development of the commercial Internet. The NSFNET was set up by the US National Science Foundation in 1985 to enable university researchers access to five supercomputer sites across the United States, using Internet Protocol [...] Continue reading →

Owner of ChinesePod.com loses case against ChinesePot.com. Language instruction service Chinesepod Limited, which uses the domain name ChinesePoD.com, has lost a UDRP against the owner of ChinesePoT.com. It’s a case of a “typo” also being a common word. The owner of ChinesePot.com didn’t respond to the UDRP, but ChinesePod didn’t convince a World Intellectual Property [...] Continue reading →