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Lloyd Ernst and the business of getting people connected
Before Cloudstaff, Lloyd Ernst was showing Australians what the internet could do. His next act began with seven software testers in the Philippines - and a familiar question about what businesses need to work together.
Andrew Busey Keeps Finding the Missing Layer
From Mosaic and web chat to social games and computational biology, Andrew Busey has spent three decades asking an unfashionably useful question: what essential piece is everyone else overlooking?
Network Solutions
Network Solutions is the original commercial domain registrar - the company that ran the .com, .net and .org registries under U.S. government contract in the 1990s and registered the internet's first wave of domain names. Today it operates as a Newfold Digital brand, selling domains, web hosting, websites, professional email, SSL/security and online marketing to small businesses, entrepreneurs and IT professionals. In 2025 it absorbed the Web.com and Register.com brands to become Newfold's flagship all-in-one online-presence platform.