In the last year, DOT announced the first federal rule to specifically provide ADA protections to people with disabilities who travel on boats and ships.
"Clearly when you back out the barter transactions, as well as the three-year dot-com ad contracts that are now expiring, advertising wasn't a viable business model, " says Henry Asher, president of Northstar Group, a New York-based investment manager that holds the parent company's shares.
Theyear 2000 may have seen the dot-com bubble reach the limits of its inflation, but at that point the Internet marketing industry was really only getting started.