It's not for nothing that he is called the Sachin Tendulkar of the
dotcom business -- he has been in it longer than most others, since 1997 to be precise.
New Dashcom websites have begun to appear everywhere; some as parallels to the
Dotcoms, others as original Dashcom shopfronts in their own right.
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DotComs charge prices lower than do MCRs.
But wider use of the ABCelectronic industry standard would ensure
dotcom traffic was more accurately measured, he added.
In recent months the stream of capital previously gushing to Internet businesses has slowed to a trickle, and the Internet economy now sees
dotcoms crashing daily.
And, despite the
dotcom disasters, Ellis and Korper stick by their original conclusions: the electronic economy is here to stay and business leaders who follow a specific prescription for success will become part of it.
But it is the spectacular collapse of big-name
dotcoms that has dominated the news.
"I don't think there is going to be an exceptional amount of lawsuits against the
dotcoms, but I do think they will be disproportionate," Virjee says.
FASHION website Ready2shop.com has become the latest casualty of the
dotcom backlash.
It was called channelfly.com, but the music, media and Internet group has dropped the out-of-favour
dotcom ending and renamed itself Channelfly plc.
The Publisher's Letter of July 3, summarizes emerging "
dotcoms" within the licensing industry into two categories--the Service Model and the Manufacturers' Rep Model--overlooking the unique Industry Support Model as built by FastTrends.com.
"We put in three new
dotcoms and one tenant expanded."
Dashcoms now work alongside
Dotcoms and creating these new web addresses couldn't be simpler.
Overnight, dozens of small software companies became
dotcoms, touting apps that would handle everything from word processing and spreadsheets to accounting and billing.
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Dotcoms must combine much-prized creativity with real business experience in order to succeed in this increasingly competitive market."
