On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Steve Rubin wrote:
Through strategic relationships with leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs), including EarthLink, Excite@Home, and NetZero....
God I love BizDev people.
New.net is able to provide use of these new, top-level domains through innovative, patent-pending technology that allows the New.net names to live within the existing Internet domain name system.
patent-pending technology? oh brother.
I thought VC's started doing research before handing out $$? If this was 1999, it wouldn't surprise me. But my god, you would think these fools would learn. Anyone want to start a free colocation facility? Free dial, free colo, whats the difference. I'm sure whoever funded New.net will fund us!
Dude, it gets better.
From the release:
Internet easier to navigate. Based in Pasadena, California, the company was started in May 2000 by idealab!, a leading Internet incubator. Since that time, New.net has developed propriety technology that allows its
Ah, another idealab! company. Lets see, what OTHER idealab! companies have screwed themselves lately (according to FuckedCompany.com[0])? * idealab! itself * eToys.com - still doing their final closeout sale * refer.com - closed * cooking.com - 20% layoffs (rumor) * utility.com - all offered services suspended * CarsDirect.com - webserver's gone * petsmart.com - pulled IPO * modo.net - closed * firstlook.com - 30% layoffs (rumor) * eve.com - webserver's gone. And there's a couple other notable mentions, including lawsuits and other funness. idealab! is making a name for itself in funding lots of companies that are tanking left and right. And they don't even have the decency to remove their fallen children from their homepage (utility.com, netzero, and carsdirect being notables)... -j [0] - I take FuckedCompany with a grain of salt (as I assume everyone else does), but many of their reports on idealab! have been shown to be true (or very close to accurate) as reported. -- -Jonathan Disher -Sr. Systems and Network Engineer, Web Operations -Internet Pictures Corporation, Palo Alto, CA -[v] (650) 388-0497 | [p] (877) 446-9311 | [e] jdisher@eng.ipix.com