Abdul Traya from Calgary

Calgary

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, Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

 became famous after he registered the domain AppleiMac.com before the launch of the Apple iMac computer. He is also the founder of WestNet in 1999. WestNet is the first company in Canada to offer city-wide WiFi

WIFI

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 Internet.

Overnight celebrity

Abdul received excessive international media coverage during the high profile domain dispute. CNN

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, MSNBC

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, CTV News

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, The New York Times

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 and CBC News

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 all covered the story. CNET

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 also featured the story on the front page at News.com

He was a guest of numerous talk shows, both prime time and late night. In June 1999, Time Magazine interviewed him regarding an unrelated matter.