symbolics.com, the first domain name ever registered, has been bought by a "real estate and domain investment company."

Sometimes you learn really despicable things by subscribing to wikipedia changelogs.

At domains.aol.com you can now register email addresses ending in... "mcom.com".

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

So yeah, I re-claimed jwz@mcom.com. But I don't see a way to make that forward out of their webmail system, so don't bother sending me mail there.

I still can't get "jwz@aol.com" or the AIM handle "jwz" however.

Remember how they wouldn't give me the mcom.com domain for my "re-host the old web sites and browsers" project? Yeah. I guess this is the "several hundred thousands of dollars" value for which they really needed this domain.

"Netscape.com will be revived again by AOL, and will relaunch soon as a Digg-like user-driven news/aggregation site."

bradthemad reports:

"The Dukes Of Hazzard are brought to you by Netscape."

Never ones to miss an opportunity for brand necrophilia, AOL/Time-Warner sponsored a weekend full of Dukes Of Hazzard reruns on the redneck channel this past weekend, and the above quote is taken verbatim from the into-spots bumpers.

Results 1 - 10 of about 139 for "Brand Necrophilia".

Searched the web for "Brand Necrophilia". Results 1 - 7 of about 19.

Last month I pondered the arrival of Netscape Microsoft Internet Explorer. But this month, it would appear that "Netscape Navigator" is still a corpse worth fucking as well!

AOL mulls toolbar service

Time Warner's America Online division is considering creating a desktop application that lets people access popular Web services such as search, news and maps, the company confirmed Monday.

The product, which has the working name "Netscape Navigator," looks like a compass with names of different services -- such as "movie showtimes," "yellow pages," and "shopping" -- encircling a Google Web search bar.

Update, Nov 25: Alleged screen shot below... Also, some people are pissing in the wind...

Your search - "Brand Necrophilia" - did not match any documents.

So I just wanted to get that out there.

(In regards, of course, to AOL's "repurposing" of the name "Netscape" to refer to a bargain-basement AOL service.)

The best part of this latest bit of corpse-fucking is going to be the browser: because there's no way that "AOL lite" is going to ship with Mozilla, right? They fired all the Mozilla developers, after all, because they have a new MSIE contract. So they'll ship a branded MSIE.

It will be "the Netscape version of Microsoft Internet Explorer."

That's just so wonderfully head-explodey!