RealNames
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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Internet services |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Founder | Keith Teare |
| Defunct | 2002 |
| Fate | Ceased operations after termination of partnership with Microsoft |
| Products | Keyword-based Internet naming system |
RealNames was an internet services company founded in 1996 by Keith Teare.[1] It developed a multilingual, keyword-based naming system for the Internet that would translate keywords typed into the address bar of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser to Uniform Resource Identifiers, based on the existing Domain Name System, that would access the page registered by the owner of the RealNames keyword.
In effect, to users of Internet Explorer, RealNames became a domain registry which was capable of registering names that worked without needing to belong to a top-level domain such as ".com" or ".net". RealNames and its backers expected this to be a lucrative source of income, and it raised more than 130ドル million of funding.[2]
RealNames depended on its partnership with Microsoft, which offered the RealNames service on Internet Explorer. RealNames shut down operations in 2002 following a decision by Microsoft to redirect the 1 billion page views per calendar quarter that RealNames was resolving from the browser address bar into the MSN search engine. At the time of its closure, the company employed 83 people.[3]
In 2014, Tucows purchased RealNames.com. The domain now hosts a customized e-mail service, made possible by its acquisition of Mailbank and its long list of surname domain names.[4]
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ↑ Grossman, Wendy (2002年06月10日). "The name game". The Independent. Retrieved 2026年02月10日.
- ↑ Boitnott, John (2014年06月20日). "Brutal Lessons From 4 Failed Startups". NBC News. Entrepreneur.com. Retrieved 2026年02月10日.
- ↑ Clark, Don (2002年05月13日). "RealNames Is Shutting Down, Blaming Failure on Microsoft" . The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2026年02月10日.
- ↑ "Blast from the past: Tucows relaunches RealNames (and it's very different) - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News & Website Stuff". Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News & Website Stuff. 2014年12月11日. Retrieved 2018年09月27日.
