Tag: Wiki.com

Dispute Over Wiki.com Domain

Tags: Wiki + Wiki.com + Wikia + MindTouch

MarcoPolo
Posted by MarcoPolo 1 year 10 months ago; via readwriteweb.com/archives...

The front page of Wiki.com has been redirecting to Wikia for a few weeks, right now Wikia has a wiki page up saying that MindTouch is shutting down by January 25, 2007 (see Message from Mindtouch). Wikia's page currently reads:

"Wiki.com is not affiliated in any way with Wikia.com. Wikia has no control or ownership of the domain wiki.com. This rescued wiki was created following rumors that wiki.com was closing down. At the time, there was no indication whether wiki.com wikis would disappear or not, so Wikia made plans to migrate these sites...

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An interview with the man who bought Wiki.com

Tags: John Gotts + Wiki + Wiki.com + Searching.com + FightClub.com

Kevom
Posted by Kevom 2 years 3 months ago; via valleywag.com/tech/top/go...

Who is John Gotts?

The man who made millions by selling spyware and spam killers at Adware.com is less "serial entrepreneur" and more "massively parallel entrepreneur." While running his first site, along with Searching.com, FightClub.com, and others, Gotts recently bought Wiki.com for $2.86 million.

How was he going to profit from a domain named after wikis, a largely not-for-profit industry best known for powering Wikipedia? The same way Gotts and his two-person company ("There's me and there's my secretary," Gotts tells me) profit...

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