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today's tragedy of brand necrophilia [Thu, 27-Aug-2009 10:14 PM]
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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.

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Brand Necrophilia, part 5 [Thu, 7-Aug-2008 11:37 PM]
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[music |Tricky -- Brand New You're Retro]

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.

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Brand Necrophilia, part 4 [Thu, 16-Mar-2006 2:23 PM]
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[music |Ladytron -- Weekend]

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

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139, 19, 0.

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dang brand necrophilia. [Mon, 28-Feb-2005 4:56 PM]
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[music |Not Breathing -- The Sog March]

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.

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Brand Necrophilia, part 2 [Wed, 19-Nov-2003 2:00 PM]
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[music |Atari Teenage Riot -- Into the Death]

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...

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Brand Necrophilia [Wed, 15-Oct-2003 1:35 AM]
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[music |Stabbing Westward -- Desperate Now]

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!

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