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Tracking the Rise of Dot-Com Dominance, Dot-Bomb Implosions

March 13th, 2010 | No Comments

News Analysis: Like stock symbols on the world’s financial markets, .com domain names come and go. They rise to prominence on the fortunes and aspirations of companies great and small. Some of them become the Web identities of rich and powerful companies that live on as household names such as IBM, Apple, HP, Amazon.com and Google. But many once instantly recognizable names have since faded or disappeared from the Web altogether through buyouts and business failures. Here is a look at the fate of some of the oldest and most respected names to appear on the Internet since the first .com name was registered in March 1985.
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the 25-year history of the .com domain name, it’s often been a case of quot;the
last shall be first and the first shall be last quot; for many prominent Web
URLs.

After
the .com domain was created in early 1985, many so-called dot-com companies
rose to prominence with great ideas, blockb…


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From the Bubble to the Burst: A Look Back at 25 Years of Dotcom

March 12th, 2010 | No Comments

In 1985, the domain name .com came into existence, helping to define the modern Internet. Within two years of the registration of the first Internet domain name, major tech corporations such as Intel (Intel.com), Xerox (xerox.com), and Apple (apple.com), along with a host of smaller outfits, had all begun to make their mark on the World Wide Web. Their presence helped give birth to everything from search engines (Google, etc.) to social networks (Facebook, etc.) to a wide variety of online services in the commercial, altruistic, and just-plain-weird realms or sometimes all three at once (were looking at you, Craigslist). The following Websites represent some of the biggest successes, along with some of the most spectacular failures, of the past 25 years. For millions of users, some of these Websites will seem like old and long-gone friends; others continue to dominate the Internet to this day.
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Global PC Market Suffering First Decline Since Dot-Com Crash

July 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Global PC shipments are expected to decline by 4 percent, in the first contraction in unit shipments since the 2001 dot-com bubble burst, according to research firm iSuppli. Reduced interest in desktops is partly to blame, with netbook and notebook numbers continuing to rise.
– For the first time since the dot-com bust of 2001, the PC market will see a contraction in unit shipments in 2009, according to a new report from research firm iSuppli.

The research firm blames falling IT spending and plunging desktop computer sales shipments of which are likely to decline b…


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