DISNEY GATHERS INTERNET DOMAINS; MOUSE READIES ONLINE SERVICE.Byline: Mylene Mangalindan Bloomberg Bloomberg A major global provider of 24-hour financial news and information including real-time and historic price data, financials data, trading news and analyst coverage, as well as general news and sports. News The Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Co. registered new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. domain names that emphasize family, news, entertainment and information searches as part of the Go Network Internet service it's building with Infoseek Corp., according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. new filings. Burbank-based Disney, the world's second-largest entertainment company, agreed in June to buy 43 percent of Infoseek, the No. 3 Internet search company. The two companies said in September that they will roll out their new Internet service called the Go Network later this year. Disney registered new Web domain names, or Internet site addresses, such as goinfo.net, goparents.net, go411.net, gocartoons.net, gowaltdisney.net and gopeople.com, according to Company Sleuth, a Web site that tracks new Internet domain names. Internet domain names An organization's unique name on the Internet. The chosen name combined with a top level domain (TLD), such as .com or .org, also called a "domain extension," makes up the Internet domain name. For example, computerlanguage.com is the domain name for the publisher of this Encyclopedia. are registered with Network Solutions Inc., which administers Web sites using .com, .org, .net and .edu. While companies don't necessarily use all the Web site addresses they register, Disney's Internet registrations signal the direction of the company's online strategy. ``They're trying to keep it as content-agnostic (as possible), to create a portal that's not too Disney-centric,'' said Chris Charron, analyst at Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
Nothing to Sneeze At is an episode of Garfield and Friends. , but they have a lot of work to do. They have to build a brand from scratch.'' Disney is trying to get more of its media products on the Internet and Infoseek is hoping to benefit from Disney's marketing muscle. The two companies have said they want to offer more information and a broader selection than other so-called portals, or online gateways to a variety of services and information. They hope to catch up to and keep pace with Yahoo! Inc., Excite Inc., Lycos Inc., Netscape Communications Corp. and others who all offer similar features such as free e-mail See Internet e-mail service. , news, stock quotes, Web searches and phone directory information. Disney also registered other Web site names including gobrowse.net, gosupport.net, goinfoseek.net, goradio.net, gobrowse.com, gooffline.com, gohealth.net, gocity.net, goschools.com, tiggermain.com, woodyandbuzz.com, zoog.net. The new Web site addresses appear to be an attempt to integrate the two companies' offerings while making it easier for users to search for information, analysts said. ``They're being very aggressive. They're enabling users to reach them based on a common sense message,'' said analyst Julia Pickar of market researcher Zona Research Inc. |
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