Ghost Sites of the Web

Web 1.0 history, forgotten web celebrities, old web sites, commentary, and news by Steve Baldwin. Published erratically since 1996.

June 23, 2008

InfoSpace.com, The Lookup Portal That Nobody Used, Now Goes to Verizon Property

InfoSpace, The Lookup Portal That Nobody Used, Now Goes to Verizon Property
Interesting story in the New York Times about Infospace, a formerly high-flying Silicon Alley wunderkind once valued at $31 billion. While Infospace is still in the meta-search business (Dogpile.com), only the shedding of assets, including its once popular infospace.com lookup portal, is the only thing keeping it profitable today.

Today, if you go to infospace.com, you'll find yourself at SuperPages.com, which belongs to Verizon, which recently bought the property from Infospace. But there are still a couple of domains around that haven't been moved over (yet); one of them is http://www.infospace.com/_1_2SW3TO104T17M6G__h.p/. Here you can see the way InfoSpace.com looked in its pre-sale prime.

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