# Dot-Coms

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 15, 2001, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dot-coms/50189 "2001-01-15T18:59:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dot-coms/50189/1 "2001-01-15T18:59:31Z")

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What percentage of Dot-Com companies that advertised over Last year’s Super bowl are sill in business?

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**Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dot-coms/50189/2 "2001-01-15T19:40:46Z")

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Well, lets take the list of ads from this page…  
[http://www.usatoday.com/money/admeter/2000msb007.htm](http://www.usatoday.com/money/admeter/2000msb007.htm)

I count 14 legitimate “dot-coms”.

Dead:  
[Computer.com](http://Computer.com): [http://www.computer.com](http://www.computer.com) now takes you to [http://www.computers4sure.com](http://www.computers4sure.com)…geez, why’d they give up on that domain name?  
[Pets.com](http://Pets.com): had a very well documented death. They auctioned off the sock puppet. [petsmart.com](http://petsmart.com) has taken over the [pets.com](http://pets.com) domain.

Nearly Died:  
**Healtheon-WebMD** : I recall that WebMD came very close to running out of money last summer. Their stock is now at 10, up from a low of 5 in December, down from a high of 75 back in early 2000.

Not sure about the rest of these…I don’t believe any of these are completely out of business but none are doing well.

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Kforce  
[Lifeminders.com](http://Lifeminders.com)  
Netpliance  
[OnMoney.com](http://OnMoney.com)  
[OurBeginning.com](http://OurBeginning.com)  
These companies still advertise regularly so I’m guessing that they are somewhat healthy.  
E-Trade  
[HotJobs.com](http://HotJobs.com)  
[Monster.com](http://Monster.com)