But this northernmost German state came back into the news when Thilo Weichert, the state's privacy commissioner, raised an issue of such complexity that it will make the first Schleswig-Holstein question look like a dot-to-dot coloring book in comparison.
Eventually the conference plumped for - dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot - a signal that is hard to mistake for anything else in the world of morse.
Mr. Schaefer thinks his undisclosed dot-something could become a leading rival to the ubiquitous dot-com registry.
The four-hour event ended with everyone holding hands and singing a song with the lyrics "You have to go through a thunderstorm to see a rainbow"--a reference to the dot-com bust and the dark days of the SARS virus scare as Taobao launched in mid-2003.
Each is signified by an icon and a light-up dot, although you'll need to recall which dot is which in low-light settings, as the icons themselves remain unlit.
Because the perceived quality of patent awards has deteriorated--critics complain that they were given almost indiscriminately to dot-coms for only the slightest changes in prior art--even minor patent applications must be carefully (and expensively) vetted by patent lawyers as protection against lawsuits by aggrieved patent holders.
These hastily assembled, short-term loans are intended to help faltering dot-coms get through tough times, with the hope their cards will improve.
These hastily assembled, short-term loans are intended to help faltering dot-coms get through tough times, with the hope their cards will soon improve.
When SmartTVs with web browsers emerge will we be expected to visit TV-dot websites to add to the misery?
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In the dot-com bubble, Main Street investors, eyes glued to CNBC, eagerly invested in every new dot-com IPO.
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It's hard to determine when to short a dot-com stock with no earnings to decelerate.
Losing talent and watching cash decline in relative terms, it's my guess that Gates and Ballmer decided enough was enough--it's time to go to war against these troublesome dot-coms.
While the previous Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan, took rates to 6.5% to pierce the dot-com bubble of the 1990s, Bernanke seems to be betting that about 5.5% will be sufficient to prick the housing bubble.
Seattle could even find itself left behind in the dot.com revolution, since local companies such as Amazon.com, HomeGrocer.com and Drugstore.com have staked their all on the consumer market just when the business-to-business dot.com market looks like an even bigger profit-maker.
After the dot-com bust, Pennington was thrilled with the opportunities to buy computing infrastructure at pennies on the dollar from busted dot-coms.
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He and two business partners say they plan to apply for dot-eco, a domain they hope will be attractive to companies and nonprofits with eco-friendly products or missions.
The 2.8-inch, 461k-dot capacitive touchscreen is fixed at a slight angle, making it possible to take overhead and lower-angle shots simply by rotating the entire camera.
Many of the companies that will go public in the year to come are far more substantial than the dot-coms that rose to fame in a flash and disappeared in a poof.
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The computer is hooked up to fiber-optic cables leading to DOT and University of Minnesota networks.
At the time Akamai's main customers were free-spending dot-coms that wanted Akamai to make their Web pages load more quickly.
Their business, called Commercial Connect LLC, initially applied for the rights to dot-shop in 2000.
But for the current crop of people hoping to become dot-anything entrepreneurs, there's an immediate concern.
When Bush took office, stocks already were sliding due to the dot-com bust that started in early 2000.
She had moved back to Canada, after a stint working in the United States flamed out due to the dot-com crash.
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On April 17, 2002, Greenspan downplayed the idea of a housing bubble comparable to the dot-com bubble that had burst in 2000.
The IPOs of Zynga, LinkedIn, Groupon and other social-media companies have converged to form a wealth wave that, while more concentrated, is drawing comparisons to the dot-com boom of the late-1990s.
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Then it was left out in the cold, as Silicon Valley created the microchip revolution and just about all the other excitement of the 1980s and 1990s, down to the dot-com binge.
"It's possible to have no competitors, but we could have five, " says Jean Guillon of Paris, who along with several partners is seeking the rights to dot-wine, a registry aimed at wine bloggers, retailers and others.
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