Thank you, I have run into multiple dead ends on the developer name. Nothing is published anywhere on who it was or where they are based. I would have thought they would have been bragging prior to its release which is common in that industry.
It appears it had to connect to a server securely and someone or something redirected the phone to another address. So it was server based. They also lost the server they used for all there VIOP phones. Comcast announced that day they thought it was a denial of service attack and then retracted that. Very strange stuff either gross incompetence or coordinated attack.