Jan27

Dog.com buys Fish.com for $1 million

Pets.com sock puppet

Chris Andersen: "The owner of Dog.com just paid $1 million for Fish.com, in hopes of starting what amounts to a new Pets.com."

Online shopping for your pets is big business again but this time the company is focused on selling smaller items such as dog treats instead of 50 pound bags of dog food. Is the fish food market worth a $1 million domain name?

Bubble vs. Boom
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  1. Randy Charles Morin on January 27, 2006 at 3:07 PM wrote: #

    The 2006 exit strategy had me ROFL. Good one!

  2. Author Profile Page Chris Radcliff on January 27, 2006 at 3:38 PM wrote: #

    Gotta love the Wired take on things. "It's not another bubble, because companies weren't using Linux before." Yep.

  3. thecreator on January 30, 2006 at 5:52 AM wrote: #

    Ha! Yahoo seems to be the flavor of the month.

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