Internet Business Companies: Dot-com Company

Dot-Com Company: Internet Business Companies

In the late 1990s, Many Internet Business Companies started commonly known as dot-com company. But out of which only few survived today and rest of the companies are closed or bankrupt now.

What is Dot-Com Company?

Well, in simple words a Dot-com company is one whose main Business is on the Internet. Which makes its money/profits by doing an Online Business only. The Examples of Dot-com companies are Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Orkut, Twitter…etc..

The main purpose of these dot-com companies was to raise the capital from the venture capitalists, develop a successful web business, growing it exponentially high and later on exit from it by taking that dot-com company to the public.

How Internet Business Companies Make Money?

Well, Dot-com companies make money from 3Cs means,

- Commerce

- Content &

- Connection

Commerce means selling products over the Internet such as Amazon.com. while Content means making money from the content starting from News Website to Blog. Content web business makes money from advertisement selling. Connection means doing a business by supplying connections such as AOL, one of the largest ISP (Internet Service Provider) in USA.

But unfortunately most of the dot-com companies failed even after literally millions of dollars of money infusion in it. Here is a List of some well-known failed Dot-com Companies.

List of well known Failed Dot-com Companies -

- 360HipHop
- AmCy.com
- Boo.com
- Broadband Sports
- Cyberial Outpost
- CyberRebate
- DigiScents – tried to transmit smells over the Internet
- E-Loft.com – A paneuropean portal for university students.
- Excite@Home
- Flooz.com
- Kozmo.com
- theGlobe.com
- Kibu.com – Online community for teen girls
- Pseudo.com – One of the first live streaming video websites
- Yadayada.com
- Zap.com

Thus, all of the dot-com companies are just the few examples of the whole the list who have lost literally hundreds of millions of Venture Capitalists.

Only those Internet Businesses survived in the Dot-com Bubble who have really added value to the life of the people around the world at mass scale such as Google & Amazon. Rest of the companies did not survive and they fail even before it’s start-up launching.