Some interesting facts about domain names. The results of significant number crunching on 3.5GB of .com domain name records yield some intriguing stats - for example, did you know that every single permutation of three letter acronyms is already taken within the .com hierarchy? And that nearly 80% of four letter combinations (not actual words, but just random XSLA.com style gibberish) is reserved? 100% of the top 10,000 family names in America are also booked.
posted by jonson
on Apr 14, 2006 -
46 comments
It has been four years since the dot-coms crashed, sweeping ideas like mylacky.com, pets.com and kozmo.com into the circular file. The remaining survivors have been remarkably successful.
Google owns the search space and has redefined web mail.
Orbitz and
Expedia take most of the pain out of travel planning and reservations.
Tenzing has spent close to half a decade pushing for
IFE certification for
Linux. Once properly certified, they built a system light enough, cheap enough, and reliable enough for installation aboard
aircraft. All this effort just so you can
read email the next time you travel by air. Aerospace giant
Boeing is hard at work on a
similar product but their demonstration is far more
limited than start-up Tenzing's. (no, not
that Tenzing)
posted by b1tr0t
on Oct 15, 2004 -
12 comments
The 24 Hour Dot Com. Two Swedish students at the 'Wizards of OS' conference in Berlin decided to start a dot com, build it up, and cash in within twenty four hours. Their IRC logs make great reading to see how they bought the PR and 'product' together. The dot com has now 'IPOed' and is
available to buy on eBay.
posted by wackybrit
on Jun 14, 2004 -
8 comments
Ex-dot-commers are considering other careers. In this case, a potentially lucrative, more recession-proof trade: Bartending ("When times are good, people drink. When times are bad, people drink.") Not a terribly enlightening article in itself, but tell me: Have you or a friend abandoned a tech field? What's your new job?
posted by Shane
on Sep 24, 2002 -
27 comments
While it's hard to say when the dotcom bubble began to burst, it's now officially clear when the internet stock bubble ended,
which would be today. With the NASDAQ taking the first dip to 1996 levels, it's time to grab a
Webvan-delivered 40oz out of your orange
Kozmo-surplus bag and tip it in honor of all them
Pets who
still can't drive.
posted by mathowie
on Sep 23, 2002 -
20 comments
Remembering the crazy dot-com boom. In November of 1998, a small California Internet provider named AvTel Communications announced they were providing local ADSL service to the community via a typical (and innocent, at least so it was thought) corporate press release. Business wires
spin completely mis-interpret the release, CNBC talks about it on air, then clueless investors hoping to get rich quick start throwing money at the stock causing the stock price to rise an amazing
1284% in one day before trading is suspended. After several
class-action suits, and a company
re-name, the company managed to survive the hoopla, but only barely. Now they're being
de-listed like yesterday's trash. Did something like this ever happen to a company for whom you worked? Let's share!
(Yeah, I worked there then.)
posted by WolfDaddy
on Sep 12, 2002 -
10 comments
This new trading card game takes an ironic look a a bunch of "Bad Ideas" from the dot-com boom and bust. The object is to remain in business as long as possible by raising money from VC's and forcing your opponents to spend resources on developing bad ideas... You can't actually generate any revenue, of course :-)
posted by sib
on May 1, 2002 -
7 comments
100 Dumbest Moments in dotcom land a particular favourite being.. "Candice Carpenter tells Fast Company in Feb 98, 'There isn't an Internet company in the world that's going to fail because of mistakes -- Internet companies make thousands of mistakes every week" .... quite :) (via
lesser-evil)
posted by zeoslap
on Mar 18, 2002 -
15 comments
The founders of Webshots.com sold out to Excite@home in '99 for $82.5M, they just bought it back--for $2.4M. $6.7B Excite.com goes for $10M and Blue Mountain Greetings ($780M) goes for $35M. A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon we're talking more than pocket change.
posted by m@
on Jan 8, 2002 -
12 comments
Laid Off? So I was thinking about all the people laid off from
dot.coms, and people laid off from places like
LTV, luckily I’m not in either group as of yet, but I wonder about the
differences.
On one hand, the dot.bombers still have their computers, the web is there, so are
some jobs, and the possibility of free lance work is always bobbing around, but the glory days are behind us.
Steel workers, on the other hand, well… the plant is gone, they can’t open another plant in their basement, plus to make things worse, they are probably older, and less educated, it seems harder to find
work.
Who has it worse, and with the current economy, will things
get even
worse for all of us?
posted by Blake
on Jan 8, 2002 -
18 comments
BlogBack RIP, November 16th.
SnorComments: RIP, about a week later, due to a massive migration of BlogBack's deserting rats. With the blogging community reaching critical mass, is it possible for a remotely-hosted comments service to survive the bandwidth bludgeoning?
posted by tweebiscuit
on Dec 20, 2001 -
37 comments
Dot-Com Is Dot-Gone, and the Dream With It A New York Times article on the dot-com-crash.
"Each day, the old idols seem to fade further into the dim past, barely recollected in a country where the languages of "revolution" and "warfare" are no longer just business metaphors. This is the next step after the bursting of the dot-com economic bubble — the bursting of the cultural bubble, the end of the nerd as a crossover hit, of the I.P.O. zillionaire as role model to college students."
I agree that our country is in the beginning of a cultural revolution; starting with the dot-com crash last year and accelerating with 911. Am I alone or does anyone agree?
posted by Oxydude
on Nov 25, 2001 -
23 comments
Suckers wanted. Or, as my friend put it, Company that thinks it's still 1995 ISO engineer who also thinks it's still 1995....
(I mean, can they be serious?)
posted by mattpfeff
on Nov 5, 2001 -
22 comments
The Wayback Machine. Explore
Metafilter and
Blogger from October 1999. Search
Google in 1998 or read
Salon in 1997. Visit
Word,
Yahoo,
c|net,
Feed,
Crashsite,
Cool Site of the Day,
Village Voice, and
NYTimes from 1996. Congratulate
Mathowie on his new job in 1997, see
Kottke's redesign from October 1999,
Glassdog's 3-D logos from 1997, and
Zeldman's pages optimized for Netscape 3.0. (Unsurprisingly,
Jakob's site hasn't changed much since 1996.) Surf the past and share your greatest
nostalgic finds.
posted by waxpancake
on Oct 15, 2001 -
34 comments
Contentville goes
Splitsville. Steven Brill's online newsstand -- originally funded with $130 million from CBS, NBC and Primedia in
February 2000 -- closed their doors today. In a memo to his staff, Brill wrote, "My idea for Contentville just didn't work." I'm guessing that heavy competition from other online retailers and an abundance of freely available online content did them in.
posted by waxpancake
on Sep 30, 2001 -
9 comments
What ever happened to ultraprosperity? This 1999 article written on the middle of dotcom stocktopia may make you laugh, cry or keep scratching your head, at least. Now, where's the "ultraprosperity" we were promised when we need it the most - right now- us balancing in the verge of recession, burst bubbles and nonstop layoffs?
posted by betobeto
on Aug 4, 2001 -
8 comments
Bye bye Webvan. "Although Webvan would be just one of hundreds of dot-com companies to go out of business, its story is somewhat unique. Webvan was one of the most well funded of all the dot-com companies, having raised, and burned through, around $1 billion in financing."
posted by maura
on Jul 9, 2001 -
56 comments
Apparently, these women are made of wood. Ok, I admit that I'm unable to resist a banner ad that shows nothing but claims, "Don't click this link if your wife is in the room." But seriously, the very idea of three bikini clad women stranded on a desert island with only military radio equipment for company choosing to start a pirate TV station is a bit far fetched even for the most knuckle dragging sports fan. Or is it?
posted by shagoth
on Jun 29, 2001 -
4 comments
I'm not really sure if I feel for these
people or not. A lean job market is no picnic, but c'mon, there are
other jobs out there. Maybe it is some sort of divine retribution for these shelter denizens after spending months cutting people off while yapping on the cell-phone behind the wheel of the leased
Porsche. Yes, that was a run-on sentence.
posted by donkeysuck
on Jun 15, 2001 -
20 comments
Startup.com the movie...I guess it was only a matter of time before a documentary like this was made. It's produced by the team that did "The War Room." (There's an NYTimes article
here.)
posted by treedream
on Apr 30, 2001 -
2 comments
Buffett calls Internet investing "a big trap" If only many investors would have listened to Mr. Buffett a few years ago. Today, in Omaha, Buffett said, "But I think the idea that you could take any business idea and turn it into wealth on the Internet is just wrong." Common sense strikes again.
posted by shackbar
on Apr 29, 2001 -
14 comments
This auction at eBay has to be one of the more entertaining after effects of the dotcom meltdown. Personally, the last suggestion in the ad would be my preferred usage of the item for sale...
posted by Spanktacular
on Apr 24, 2001 -
5 comments
Kozmo's website is back up but this time with an interesting memo:
". . . any rental item you do not return by April 16,2001 will be deemed a purchase and your credit card will be charged the full retail value of the item."
the site came back up yesterday. not much notice for returns . . .
posted by christian
on Apr 17, 2001 -
9 comments
Blogs of Our Lives. There I was, enjoying a Burger King breakfast, reading the local Gannett paper, when I turn to their Tuesday technology section and find . . .
posted by fpatrick
on Apr 10, 2001 -
22 comments
Dot-Com Deaths = Black Plague? Toronto Star Internet columnist K.K. Campbell takes a look at the startling simularities of the dot-com deaths and the black plague.
"The Dot-Com Death resulted primarily from a little parasite (Internet hypesters, Bombasticus bullroaricus) carried on the body of another parasite (Wall Street IPO underwriters, Securitus scammus maximus) on corporate stocks moving along business capital routes."
posted by bkdelong
on Mar 30, 2001 -
4 comments
Children, if you can't play nice, go to your rooms. Microsoft and
Sun are now throwing rotten eggs at each other. I haven't seen the atmosphere between two large corporations get this ugly since the MCI/AT&T long distance wars. As
Ars Technica puts it, "Man, their bad blood has gone from lengthy legal disputes to 'Oh Yeah? Well your mom is ugly!' type squabbling."
posted by Steven Den Beste
on Feb 12, 2001 -
6 comments
51,631 dot com layoffs as of Feb. 01, 2001. Is it that the web allows us to simultaneously view the usual failure of 99% of new businesses, a sign of the coming recession, or just a result of bad business plans and get rich quick schemes? Or was it simply too good to last?
Whatever the reason, it's depressing.
posted by crushed
on Feb 2, 2001 -
19 comments
