Companies like Nike, Coors, McDonald's and now the Internet dot-coms pay athletes like Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Ken Griffey Jr. handsomely to endorse their products.
On the Internet, dot-coms ultimately crashed and burned, but not before they bought requisite routers from Cisco and servers from a host of companies.
My former company, which was launched during the Internet dot-com boom, became huge and then collapsed during its seventh year.
He drew a distinction between the Internet's dot-orgs and dot-coms like Beliefnet.com and Christianity.com.com
They shed light on today's headlines about Microsoft's antitrust battle, the Internet and dot-com mania and financial market volatility.
There's a scarcity of prime dot-com real-estate as companies and individuals have aggressively grabbed claim to the most coveted real-estate address on the Internet: the dot-com.
"Using the word Internet, or dot-com in a company name, sends a certain message," said David A. Kugler, chief executive of Monument Funds of Bethesda, Md. "It's not as fashionable as it once was".
During those days of Internet euphoria, dot-coms and old-line companies alike seemed desperate to hop on the bandwagon, seeking to emulate ways and buy the tools of the high-technology stars.
Raymond J. Haller, the president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Willistons, said the project would help the commercial areas compete at a time when "the Internet, the dot-coms and what have you" were draining some of their vitality and leaving a scattering of empty stores.
There are also privately run Internet cafes dotting the country.
"It was during the boom time and the explosion of the internet and dot-coms, where we had a really clever idea of bringing internet content to mobile networks.
