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Excite@Home: ultimate domain squatter

Excite@Home: ultimate domain squatter

Molly Wood Former Executive Editor
Molly Wood was an executive editor at CNET, author of the Molly Rants blog, and host of the tech show, Always On. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.
Molly Wood
It turns out that even obviously lucrative domain names couldn't save Excite@Home from bankruptcy. The company's successor is as Stuff.com, Home.net, and Firstyears.com--at, of course, a tidy premium (shoppingcart.com went for $285,000). Other squatters still have cash.