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{{Short description|Web address registered in 2014 for the project that became demonpore, inc.}}
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{{About|the web address|the company that used the name|demonpore, inc.}}
{{Infobox website
| name = demonpore.com
| type = Domain name
| url = demonpore.com
| launched = December 24, 2014 (registered)
| current_status = Active; opens the company's main website
}}

'''demonpore.com''' is a web address registered on December 24, 2014 for the sliding-pore project of [[Kent Kemmish]], which became [[demonpore, inc.]] in 2018 and [[Molecular Reality Corporation]] in 2021.<ref name="whois" /><ref name="records" /> It is the oldest of the four web addresses the company has registered, and the only one that carries a retired name of the company.<ref name="records" /> The address opens the company's main website.

== Registration ==
The registry's record gives the creation time as 05:05:16 UTC on December 24, 2014, a Wednesday.<ref name="whois" />{{efn|The registry keeps time in UTC. In California the clock read 9:05 p.m. on December 23, and in Arizona, which stays on Mountain Standard Time all year, 10:05 p.m.}} Among the dated events in the early history of the company, the registration comes first. The project's first slide deck is dated by its founder to "around 2015", the priority date of his patent application is May 9, 2017, demonpore, inc. was incorporated in 2018, and molecularreality.com was registered on July 18, 2021, about six and a half years after the older address.<ref name="minds" /><ref name="patent" /><ref name="records" />

== The name ==
The word joins the demon of [[Maxwell's demon]], the imaginary gatekeeper that sorts molecules at a hole in a wall, to the pore of a [[nanopore]]. According to a 2026 post that Kemmish wrote in the voice of the company's cartoon demon, [[Maxine (character)|Maxine]], the name began when he explained his sliding pore and "it reminded a colleague of those little cartoons" that illustrate the demon.<ref name="minds" /> The first slide deck spelled it DEMONPORE™ and gave a page to the question "So... What's with the Name?" Later the company wrote it in lowercase, and in 2026 it defined a demonpore as a pore that measures each molecule as it arrives and then decides whether to let it pass, send it back or hold it.<ref name="minds" /><ref name="records" />

Other words grew from it. Kemmish calls the staff of those years "teamonpore" and their pores "demonpores", and a video of the period is titled "wet dpore EDH 1 100 mM KCl".<ref name="blood" /><ref name="vid-edh" />

== Use ==
In the field guide that [[Keltar]] narrates, the first answer lists the addresses that lead to the company's website: "The home address is epicquest.bio. The address molecularreality.com points to the same site, as does demonpore.com, an old name I mention exactly once in this entire guide."<ref name="faq" /> The visible text of the guide names the domain once. The copy of the same answer that the page embeds for search engines says "one older domain name" in its place.<ref name="faq" />

Since October 25, 2026 the address has opened the [[Molecupedia]] article on the company.<ref name="molecupedia">{{cite web |url=https://molecularreality.com |title=Molecular Reality Corporation |website=Molecupedia |date=2026-10-25}}</ref> Before that, the front page of the company's site took several forms in 2026, which [[Websites of Molecular Reality Corporation]] lists.

== After the rename ==
The company dropped the name in 2021 and kept the address. Kemmish said in 2026 that the company had attracted "veiled death threats" whenever it drew attention online, and that this was his reason for changing the name. The full passage is quoted in the article on [[demonpore, inc.]].<ref name="floss" /> The console that the company had designed under the old name kept it, and in 2026 Kemmish wrote that the company still wanted to ship "a very similar product and call it the 'demonpore 64'".<ref name="overview" />

== See also ==
* [[Keltar's Field Guide to Molecular Reality]]
* [[keltar.ai]]
* [[Timeline of Molecular Reality Corporation]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="whois">{{cite web |title=WHOIS record for demonpore.com |access-date=2026-10-25}}</ref>
<ref name="records">{{cite web |title=Company records |publisher=Molecular Reality Corporation |date=October 2026}}</ref>
<ref name="faq">{{cite web |url=https://molecularreality.com/FAQ |title=Keltar's Field Guide to Molecular Reality |publisher=Molecular Reality Corporation |date=August 2026}}</ref>
<ref name="minds">{{cite web |title=Welcome to my Minds |author=Kemmishtree |website=EQBio-OS |date=2026-03-28}}</ref>
<ref name="blood">{{cite web |title=rain of blood |author=Kemmishtree |website=EQBio-OS |date=2026-03-29}}</ref>
<ref name="patent">{{cite web |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US10908144B2/en |title=US10908144B2: Stacks of coaligned nanopores and fabrication and uses thereof |website=Google Patents |access-date=2026-10-25}}</ref>
<ref name="floss">{{cite web |title=Flossing with DNA |author=Kemmishtree |website=EQBio-OS |date=2026-03-29}}</ref>
<ref name="overview">{{cite web |title=2022 sci-tech overview |author=Kemmishtree |website=EQBio-OS |date=2026-03-28}}</ref>
<ref name="vid-edh">{{cite AV media |title=wet dpore EDH 1 100 mM KCl |publisher=EpicQuestBio |medium=Video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-RSmxuomAY}}</ref>
}}

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