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  Doing business online and the dot com bust
The ".com" meant it was a commercial website, as opposed to ".org" (for nonprofit organizations) and ".net" (for networks).
Some years ago, we started hearing about "dot coms." Bandied about wildly but apparently never clearly defined, there are various explanations of what this term meant at the time.
I trust that gives a little better perspective about what all this "dot com, dot bomb" was about, and puts the end to worries about regular people and businesses doing business on the Internet.
dianev.com /web_design_basics/dot_com_bust_online_business.html   (1046 words)

  
 dot - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about dot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In computing, full stop that separates IP addresses, sections of domain names, and the hierarchies in newsgroup names, as well as file names and their extensions.
I learned dot trick in Mogoung Tanjong when I was collecting liddle monkeys for some peoples in Berlin.
A dot and'--here he glanced at the baby--'a dot and carry--I won't say it, for fear I should spoil it; but I was very near a joke.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /dot   (204 words)

  
 Web Servers: dot-com bust ??
A company that has emerged unscathed from the recent dot-com bust with profits soaring to almost 400% and revenues doubling in the past one year.
The 'dot-com bust' referred to in the statement above refers to the dramatic failures of over-valued technologies stocks in 2000 and 2001.
Basically, any business that had the word 'internet' as a large portion of their business plan was getting mad amounts of venture capitol as the internet was the next new craze.
www.experts-exchange.com /Web/Web_Servers/Q_21218824.html   (303 words)

  
 The Independent (London, England) : Business Monthly: `It was a perception problem'; Analysts and survivors of the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Independent (London, England) : Business Monthly: `It was a perception problem'; Analysts and survivors of the late-Nineties dot.com bust are meeting at a conference to discuss the future of the digital economy.
Business Monthly: `It was a perception problem'; Analysts and survivors of the late-Nineties dot.com bust are meeting at a conference to discuss the future of the digital economy.
Read 'The Independent (London, England): Business Monthly: `It was a perception problem'; Analysts and survivors of the late-Nineties dot.com bust are meeting at a conference to discuss the future of the digital economy.
static.highbeam.com /t/theindependentlondonengland/november022002/businessmonthlyitwasaperceptionproblemanalystsands/index.html   (339 words)

  
 Dot-com bust hits NRI philanthropy
Two out of three Non-Resident Indians in the Silicon Valley have been significantly affected by the dot-com bust and the impact has reflected in the community's philanthropy.
A survey conducted last month, among 46 charter members of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE) on the impact of the dot-com bust says that NRIs are now giving lesser amounts to fewer charities.
The bust reversed this trend, as NRIs now prefer to then send contributions to charities/non-governmental organisations in India.
www.rediff.com /money/2003/may/24nri.htm   (728 words)

  
 Dot-Com
Oceanico Dot Com made the most of her favoured high draw to register a runaway success in the Black Sheep Brewery Maiden Auction Stakes at Ripon today.
They were dot com products you know …there was one that was actually like three hundred pages a week and they gathered in my office at the New Yorker Magazine...
It seems that the dot com boom of a few years ago has left a bad taste in the mouth of investors who are less interested in companies approaching the main...
finance.za-news.com /new/Dot-Com.html   (5321 words)

  
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We are pleased to have survived the Dot Com boom and bust.
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 Wired News: Dot-Orgs Chart Their Fortunes
There is less money to go around now, and donors are looking for a demonstrable return of "good" for their investment.
She agreed that the downturn has brought more applications from qualified people to her organization, and Plugged In was one of the groups to receive a grant from Microsoft this week.
But she was concerned that the cultural impact of the dot-com bust may have quashed the enthusiasm of young people who thought they were going to change the world, only to discover that business is business.
www.wired.com /news/business/0,1367,43682,00.html   (873 words)

  
 Business Wire : Dot Com Bust Doesn't Stall Small Business Development. @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dot Com Bust Doesn't Stall Small Business Development.
Despite the downturn in dot com businesses, MyCorporation.com(R) of Agoura Hills, California, continues to have a thriving national e-commerce business.
Celebrating its five-year anniversary as an innovative document services company, MyCorporation.com is one of the nation's leading incorporation, LLC formation and trademark service providers.
static.highbeam.com /b/businesswire/february272003/dotcombustdoesntstallsmallbusinessdevelopment/index.html   (191 words)

  
 Kellogg in the Media, USA Today, April 12, 2004, Kellogg School of Management
SAN FRANCISCO -- Four years after the dot-com bust, some tech companies are still slashing staff and restructuring operations.
Sun and Gateway have made cuts several times since the dot-com bust of 2000.
Nearly every tech company ordered cuts after the bust of 2000, but many underestimated the length of the downturn, says CIO magazine publisher Gary Beach.
www.kellogg.northwestern.edu /news/hits/040412usa.htm   (385 words)

  
 Dot-com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The name derives from many of their names having the ".com" DNS suffix built into their company name.
A canonical "dot-com" company's business model relied on network effects to justify losing money to build market share, or even mind share, through giving their product away in the hope that they could charge for it.
See NorthPoint Communications, WorldCom, XO Communications, Covad Communications.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/dot_com   (1294 words)

  
 SiliconBeat: Five years after the Dot-Com Bust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
We noted again the unbelievable fact that there are still as many, if not more, venture firms today than there were at the peak of the Bubble.
The article is part of the Mercury News' series of stories (or here) this week pegged to the anniversary of the Dot-Com Bust.
True, many of the new VC firms started in 1999 and 2000 have slowed their investment pace drastically, and may be singing their swan songs without us really knowing.
www.siliconbeat.com /entries/2005/03/09/five_years_after_the_dotcom_bust.html   (897 words)

  
 Dot.com guy goes bust and changes name
It’s said that Iraq is a colonial artifact, a paint-by-numbers nation of dissimilar parts: non-Arab Kurds in the north, Sunni Arabs in the middle, majority Shi‘a Arabs in the south.
David Pescovitz: Two couples in Nashville were busted this week for printing out their own UPC bar codes and slapping them on products in Wal-Mart and other stores to lower prices.
The Global Baby Bust Summary: Most people think overpopulation is one of the worst dangers facing the globe.
www.stargeek.com /item/195239.html   (1518 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Generation Y: They've arrived at work with a new attitude   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After witnessing the financial insecurity that beset earlier generations stung by layoffs and the dot-com bust, today's newest entrants into the workforce are generally savvy when it comes to money and savings.
We were in college when we saw the whole dot-com bust."
Unlike boomers who tend to put a high priority on career, today's youngest workers are more interested in making their jobs accommodate their family and personal lives.
www.usatoday.com /money/workplace/2005-11-06-gen-y_x.htm   (1848 words)

  
 'The Squandered Computer' predicted the dot com bust. But who listened? - Business & Economy Science
The most visible effects of the dot com crash so far have been some shredded reputations and a large pile of worthless stock options.
And it is unlikely that the past few years of the dot com boom, with its enormous new losses, have improved the situation much at all.
Now that the dot com boom is over, people like Paul Strassmann won't be so easily dismissed.
www.strassmann.com /pubs/patentinsight   (773 words)

  
 redandblack.com - MIS major's low numbers attributed to dot com bust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The least popular major in the Terry College of Business last year was Management Information Systems, but several professors and students said they feel the number of students entering the major is on the rise.
Goodhue said the major has suffered following the dot com bust, Sept. 11 and the weak economy.
But he said the job market is coming back, and he hopes students will be coming back to the major.
www.redandblack.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2004/09/02/4136964f3305e   (443 words)

  
 America's feeling about the dot.com bust
For example, he says, people so far have been willing to pay RealNetworks so that they can tune into baseball broadcasts from their hometowns.
Pew found that a considerable share of Americans were personally affected by the dot.com bust.
Twelve percent report that either they or their families have lost money as a result of investing in internet companies.
www.medialifemagazine.com /news2001/nov01/nov12/5_fri/news5friday.html   (768 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Sun's success eclipsed by dot-com bust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The firm is struggling to recover from the dot-com crash.
But after two years on the bleeding edge of the bust, Sun Microsystems Inc. has fallen victim to the commoditization of the computers that do corporate America's heavy lifting.
Sun is deep in identity crisis as its executives try to reinvent the company.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,510037702,00.html   (865 words)

  
 The Dot Com Boom Goes Bust « John Chow dot Com
The Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul
The US was entering a recession and investors were starting to question the sky-high valuation placed on a dot com business.
I survived the dot com crash because the cost of running the site was pretty small and I had quite a bit of money saved up from the boom days.
www.johnchow.com /the-dot-com-boom-goes-bust   (1362 words)

  
 Boom Dot Bust - Firesign Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
And so without further hair doo hear ye is what the proper order of listening you can get with your programblabble CD player ting der, dear friendlies, in da order prescribed by the Doc Feelgood sense of money making school of continuity and continuation of identity for da group.
They arent pointing this out in advertising, howeverthe Boom Dot Bust DVD is NOT a filmed version of Boom Dot Bust.
As I said, however, sales advertising should be careful to include bolder mention of the fact that the Boom Dot Bust DVD is essentially an AUDIO experience with "no movie" as yet.
www.rapmusicville.com /Boom_Dot_Bust_B00001WRKQ.html   (438 words)

  
 Blue Dot: Dot This!
"Dot This!" allows you to save and share any web page with your friends.
When you "add friends by email", we send each friend an email on your behalf which invites them to discuss whatever it was that you found.
Copyright © 2005-2007 Blue Dot, Inc. All rights reserved.
bluedot.us /Authoring.aspx?   (94 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Amazon.com at Epinions.com
Taking its name from the mighty river, Seattle-based online vendor Amazon.com, which first opened its virtual doors in 1995 claims to have the "Earth's Biggest Selection." Selection of what is the question; selection of everything could be the answer.
Over the years many have written Amazon.com off because, until recently, the Internet merchant had yet to paint its profits fl, but when the rest of the Dot.com players when bust, Amazon.com stayed the course, expanding in a bid to become all things to all customers.
The bid worked, and today their business model shows that you don’t need to be a brick & mortar façade to survive as a viable merchant.
www.epinions.com /content_139975036548   (1637 words)

  
 Fool.com: Top 15 Casualties of the Dot-Com Bust [Motley Fool Take] September 19, 2002
A couple of days ago, Bear Stearns (NYSE: BSC) sent an email to all employees telling them to cut the casual.
The stricter dress code is not the only change we're seeing these days.
We need your e-mail address because these products are sent to your email box.
www.fool.com /news/take/2002/mft/mft02091903.htm   (277 words)

  
 HEATHER NEWMAN AND MIKE WENDLAND: Michigan firms stay strong after dot-com bust
While there's no disputing that high-tech has been through tough times, the Web is still alive and thriving close to home, with thousands of Michigan Web sites attracting millions of loyal surfers every day.
Hall's site specializes in offering repair advice and providing hard-to-find parts for old refrigerators, stoves and major household appliances that are shipped out overnight to do-it-yourselfers.
"We read about this dot-com bust, but we sure haven't seen it," he said.
www.freep.com /money/tech/web15_20020715.htm   (776 words)

  
 Bust - Bust of a Man (Getty Museum)
Bust - Bust of a Man (Getty Museum)
Miami or bust When Latin America's leaders gather in the US next month, they must oppose rampant free trade Naomi Klein Monday October 27, 2003 The Guardian
Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce.
globalinfoplus.com /?q=bust   (209 words)

  
 The Very Best Books : Implementing E-Commerce Strategies : A Guide to Corporate Success after the Dot.Com Bust
Epstein describes how some companies have been successfully in implementing it, and integrating it with their real world operations.
He compares both types, to draw inferences for an optimal strategy that you might consider for your company.
No hype, like during the dot com era.
www.elise.com /store/Reviews/ItemId/027598463X   (105 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Strong job gains last year leave dot-com bust in dust
Strong job gains last year leave dot-com bust in dust
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Kerry Cassill's line of Far East-inspired bedding, made from Indian cotton, is super soft and luxurious -- the perfect antidote to the heavy blankets of winter.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/businesstechnology/2003528098_jobless17.html   (879 words)

  
 Dot-com bust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
They proliferated in the late 1990s dot-com boom, a speculative frenzy of investment in Internet and Internet-related technical stocks and enterprises.
The name derives from the fact that many of them have the ".com" internet top-level domain suffix built into their company name.
In 1994 the Internet came to the general public's attention with the public advent of the Mosaic web browser and the nascent World Wide Web, and by 1996 it became obvious to most publicly-traded companies that a public web presence was no longer optional.
www.toolhost.com /Dot-com_bust.html   (2057 words)

  
 McKinsey & Company - Perspective - U.S. Productivity After the Dot Com Bust - December 2005
McKinsey and Company - Perspective - U.S. Productivity After the Dot Com Bust - December 2005
When the dot com bubble burst, many observers expected U.S. productivity growth to fizzle out.
But productivity continued to grow at an impressive 2.6 percent.
www.mckinsey.com /mgi/publications/us_productivity.asp   (292 words)

  
 Some Idiots Blame Gourmet Coffee For the Dot-Com Bust (Brain Innocent) >> Hypocrites.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
That's one of the theories two Internet executives-turned-filmmakers uncover with a director friend in a documentary called ``What Happened'' that premiered at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival on Thursday.
``The advent of gourmet coffee contributed to a certain overexcitement and lack of questioning,'' Chas Mastin, writer of the film said, relaying one of the more popular and humorous theories for the bust provided by people-on-the-street and Internet players interviewed for the documentary.
This site is NOT intended for people under 18, people who take things too seriously, who are too politically correct /uptight, or, people who make W look like Einstein (sorry Freepers).
www.hypocrites.com /article3288.html   (271 words)

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