Chairman's Talk
summary
Origins are a download site that built over 1,000 mirrors in 100+ countries in the late 1990s to shorten multi-hour downloads, survived a $1,000/month mirror ransom attempt, and sees that engineering later commercialized by Akamai. The company pivots to domains around 1999–2000 and becomes second-largest registrar (behind GoDaddy), launches a US mobile MVNO, and now runs a fiber-to-the-home rollout aiming to seed a US model in 10–15 years while citing China’s 100 million homes last-year figure.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Our roots
- 3:25Flint Michigan
- 7:00Tucows story
- 9:05Elliots side story
- 14:18Google Fiber
- 16:15US Fiber
- 17:56Domain Stream
- 19:04Global Governance
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