Archives / November, 2011

American Censorship Day: Stop Protect-IP and SOPA

Congress is trying to break the internet. While I mean for the above sentence to be provocative, I’m not really indulging in hyperbole. Please join me and my partners at Foundry Group in participating in American Censorship day tomorrow, Wednesday 11/16/11. There are two disturbing and potentially quite damaging bills making their way through Congress:…

Protect Your Domain

We had a (thankfully brief) scare in our portfolio last week: one of our companies temporarily lost control of its domain. An overseas third-party “bad actor” was able to convince the company’s domain name registrar to transfer control of the company’s domain without the company’s knowledge. Fortunately, our company was able to regain control of…