The founder of our company is  a woman who picked up  MIT's Technology Review a few years ago, and then never missed an issue. That publication seemed to be filled with nano-words.  When "nano" names appeared on the dropped domains lists,  she registered them. But most of the domains were registered by our founder as new domains that she imagined might someday become useful key words.  Yes,  Thesaurus and TR in hand,  she made up the names and registered them in a wild nano-frenzy.

Nanocube.com is her favorite, probably because it does seem to represent a tiny cube that can hold all the information in the universe Because of this domain-attachment, many high offers for the name were rejected over the last few years. Some things matter more than money. Transcendental Experience is one of them.

We are not sure, but we believe Nanocube.com was  the first nanotech domain registered by our Founder and CEO. Obviously, her registration of Nano URLs did not stop there.  The habit of registering nano names continued for years, and still continues to the extent that a decent nano domain becomes available (not too likely). And now,  here we are, with quite a few nice names …   

Once,  our Founder was visiting a well-known Visionary Artist in New York City named Alex Grey.  Alex is in touch with Spirit and there is no doubt about this. She remarked to Alex that she had just had a dream in which she lived, and taught, in a very flat land. During a lecture, she was asked by a dental student about the meaning of Life  (Who are we?  Why are we here? Is the mind just an epi-phenomenon of the brain? Is intelligent design intelligent? Is there intelligent life in  our government ? In any government?). 

Our founder explained that she was unable to convey these answers  verbally/conceptually because Reality, in fact,  could only be experienced. The closest model she could offer in our 2-planed world  (remember, this is a dream), was a 3d cube.  (Of course, she registered 3dcube.com,  soon after that.)  She further related to Alex that the cube she envisioned, like a little hologram,  contained everything, everywhere, at the same time.  Alex jumped up and went to his desk. Open there, was a magazine of visionary art and there were the cubes, sparkling, knowing, ice cube-like in a mystical magical display! 

Unidentified agents actually tried to steal Nanocube.com in 2005.  There was no way to get it legally (without buying it or having it gifted to them) because it is not, and has never been, used in a way that infringes on any trademark, being obviously generic .*  Likewise, it has never been used to extort money from any TM holder in the unseemly manner of cyber squatting.  Yes, someone, or some corporation,  wanted Nanocube.com and this is the Domain Hijacking technique the would-be nano registrant used:  The evildoer went to a registrar (repeatedly),  represented that the tiny nanocube name was its/theirs/his/hers, and initiated a domain transfer thinking that our founder would be dumb enough to get the transfer email and click 'OK. '  Not a nanotechnologist, but actually a dentist and an attorney, and no domain dummy, she notified both registrars and made it clearer than clear that neither should even think about transferring that domain away from her little corporation.

The plain truth is,  the registrant of this particular domain loves it,  wants to protect it.  She will part with any of the other 300 plus Nano names in her collection for a fair price, but Nanocube.com?   The  little domain that can hold all of Reality?   Not likely.


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*nanocube (def.) a cube that is a nanometer wide, deep and long.

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