curmudgeon

An embarassing outage turned into yet another marketing opportunity... WTG, Joel!

"(.brainspl.at)" <-- bug in news.yc (assuming three-character TLDs)?

Exposing an obvious lie is now considered trolling?

cough

The history of whois and nameserver records indicates otherwise...

Anyway, good luck basing your business on what seems like an illegally acquired domain name.

This cannot be true since your company Academia Inc. was not incorporated until 11/14/2006.

For those interested, compensation seems rather generous:

"We are offering a salary of $80,000, and options of between 4-5%." (cf. http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/2007-09-11_academia_7_senior.h... )

how did you manage to bend the .edu registration rules?

per http://www.educause.edu/edudomain/eligibility.asp : "Only postsecondary institutions that are institutionally accredited by an agency on the U.S. Department of Education's list of Nationally Recognized Accrediting Agencies (see recognized accrediting bodies) may obtain an Internet name in the .edu domain."

I am aware that "[a]ll institutions holding names as of October 29, 2001 in the .edu domain will be allowed to keep them without regard to institutional eligibility requirements at this time." but am sure that this would not cover the sale of an .edu domain to a startup company not engaged in education per se.

Care to clarify?