Internet.com Buys Out LinuxStart.com

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday December 23, 1999 @06:01PM from the it's-the-money dept.

Tristan Louis noted that at some point Internet.com announced their purchase of LinuxStart. LinuxStart, according to the press release is "a leading resource and search engine for the Linux community providing Linux information, tools, applications and more." If you're looking for Linux* domain name opportunities, hurry because linuxninja, linuxtomorrow, linuxtv, linuxpenguin, linuxbob, linuxpaper, linuxpop, linuxtraffic, linuxvision, linuxphone, and of course, linuxfood.com are already taken. No we're not kidding.

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What's in a name? by jeroenb · 1999-12-23 13:21 · Score: 4

Everybody is attempting to secure loads of linux* domainnames because they think a good domain name is important for reaching a large audience. The most popular sites however are probably slashdot.org, freshmeat.net, userfriendly.org and some others that don't begin with linux (ok there are ofcourse some exceptions) so in the end - content matters.