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Dot-net To Go Non-profit?
News The tussle over dot-net domains has begun. How would you characterise the job that VeriSign has done with dot-net? ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com spoke with Sabine Dolderer, a director of DENIC, in person and in a follow-up phone conversation...
[January 20, 2005, 17:10]
Future Net: 'Dot Coms' Could Face Revenge Of Dinosaurs
News To hear them tell it, the "dot com" companies of the world hold all the cards against big business. Those statements may have held up a year ago, and may still ring true in some sectors today, but by and large the Fortune 500 are beginning to roar...
[September 7, 1999, 10:42]
The Day Ahead: Dot Com Dominoes
News Net services firms are dishing out profit warnings this week as dot-com clients struggle to pay the bills, but these once-ballyhooed companies are just the latest victims of the dot-com domino effect.
[September 7, 2000, 11:21]
OpenOffice Developers Clear Visual Studio Licensing Hurdle
Talkback Java is far more mature than Dot-Net. I just can't understand why people are paying for Dot-Net. Especially as it seems the main argument for it is familiarity for VB programmers, which isn't there either as Dot-Net uses a very different...
[February 16, 2005, 11:27]
Phone Numbers Replace Dot-com Addresses
News Forget digging around for unusual dot-com addresses that are either difficult to remember or all-too-often inaccurately entered. Australian company Nacomms claims to be the first in the world to go online with numeric addressing, where telephone...
[November 30, 2000, 15:24]
2000 Roundup: The Dot-com Bubble Pops
News 2000 will be remembered as the year the dot-com bubble finally burst. By autumn dot-coms were closing at a rate of about one a day. By May the bottom had fallen out of the tech sector as a whole and investors began to flee, leaving many Net...
[January 1, 2001, 6:16]
A Faster, Leaner Olympics Online
News At the height of dot-com mania two years ago, a heated turf war exploded in Sydney over online coverage of the Games. This year's Web coverage has been heavily influenced by NBC's experience during the Sydney Games, undertaken in partnership with...
[February 9, 2002, 6:01]
EBay Posts Big Jump In Fourth-quarter Sales
News EBay's strong earnings statement comes despite the economic downturn and the prevailing trend among its dot-com peers. While hundreds of other dot-com businesses have closed shop or posted declining revenue, eBay has continued to post profits...
[January 16, 2002, 12:02]
LookSmart Draws On Desktop Power
News A handful of companies are vying for control in the niche, one of the few areas of the Net economy to have generated strong revenue and profit growth since the bursting of the dot-com bubble. Though it has a history as an editorial guide for the...
[March 21, 2003, 12:18]
The Day Ahead: Be Wary Of New Dot-com Profit Paradigm Shifts
News Maybe dot-coms reckon that any profit will do. This "we could be profitable" theme is prevalent in the dot-com world. Here's a guide to the latest dot-com profit stunts: Many dot-coms are getting the hint -- even if Wall Street doesn't immediately...
[April 28, 2000, 13:01]
Offline Giants Eat Up Web Ad Space
News Such a shift has been welcomed by ad-starved Net publishers, which have been hit hard by a dramatic downturn in ad spending since the dot-com fallout and US recession. These are advertisers that not only spend a lot more money than the dot-coms did...
[January 25, 2002, 12:12]
The Day Ahead: Why Some Consortia B2B Exchanges Won't Work
News On the surface, it appears the dot-com B2B crowd could be cooked. Industry titans -- and sworn enemies -- are joining forces so the dot-com crowd doesn't encroach on their turf. Dot-coms that remain neutral still have a role as either a go-between...
[May 15, 2000, 12:14]
Borders Founder Hawks Old Magazines Online
News Magazines are leaving money on the table through unsold archives, and Louis Borders, the man behind bookseller Borders and dot-com flameout Webvan, says he aims to fix that. But since the dot-com demise, online publishers pressed for cash have been...
[July 28, 2003, 11:47]
Tech Billionaires A Little Less Wealthy
News The investor may have missed out on gains during the tech bubble, but his company, Berkshire Hathaway, is on the rise again now that the dot-com mania has subsided. The creators of Yahoo have also suffered from the dot-com implosion; David Filo and...
[March 1, 2002, 16:40]
Domain For Mobile Devices Hits The Web
News Part of the reason is that accessing content on the Web from a mobile handset is cumbersome, with some sites requiring a long Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP, address and others needing only a typical dot-com address.
[May 24, 2006, 10:10]
Bye-bye Bulls, Hello Bears
News After watching the Nasdaq lose more than half its value in the past eight months as dot-com after dot-com went belly-up, several Internet analysts strategically traded in their horns for claws heading into 2001.
[January 2, 2001, 8:54]
If You've Got The Cash, Google's Got The Answer
News Along with the demise of countless dot-coms, many such services were forced out of business or into different business models. The market for person-to-person advice Web sites exploded during the dot-com heyday, luring even large Web portals such...
[April 22, 2002, 9:08]
Old Economy Lines Up To Take Over Dotcoms
News Many of last year's dot-com darlings are facing difficult financial conditions at the moment, as was illustrated by Buy.com's $27.4m (£18.6m) losses in the fourth quarter of 2000. This is a classic example of an established brand, who've tried a...
[February 6, 2001, 9:18]
Netimperative.com Bites The Dust
News If I were looking to invest in dot coms in Europe, I'd be much keener to go for picks-and-shovels type businesses, selling infrastructure," Ward said. A few weeks ago there was a flurry of commentary about the significance of the stock market crash...
[May 22, 2000, 11:37]
A Year Ago: Netimperative.com Bites The Dust
News If I were looking to invest in dot-coms in Europe, I'd be much keener to go for picks-and-shovels type businesses, selling infrastructure," Ward said. A few weeks ago there was a flurry of commentary about the significance of the stock market crash...
[May 22, 2001, 6:28]
