Lycos Europe
| Jubii Europe NV (formerly LYCOS Europe NV)
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| legal form | Naamloze Vennootschap |
| Seat | Haarlem , the Netherlands |
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| Number of employees | 2 (December 31, 2011) |
| sales | 3.3 million euros (2009) |
| Branch | Information technology |
| Website | www.jubii.com |
Lycos Europe ( Prime Standard : LCY / Nouveau Marché: 5770), based in Haarlem , the Netherlands , operated a European Internet portal consisting of a network of websites in seven languages. The portal offered a combination of search engine , web directory , communication services, content channels, website hosting and online community . The company is represented in Denmark , Germany , France , Great Britain , Italy , the Netherlands, Austria , Spain and Switzerland .
The subsidiaries Lycos UK Ltd., Lycos France Sarl, Pangora SAS, Lycos cjsc Armenia, Lycos Italia Srl, Lycos Espana Int. Serv. SL, Lycos NetherlandsBV, Yarps Telecom Network AB (Sweden), Home SE AB (Sweden) and Odina Sverige AB (Sweden) are currently being dissolved. After this step has been completed, Jubii Europe GmbH and Jubii Eastern Europe GmbH (both based in Gütersloh ) are also to be liquidated.
The word lycos comes from the Greek and means wolf . The company name is derived from the scientific name of the wolf spider (Lycosidae), as an allusion to the term spider (spider) for web crawlers . The name can also be understood onomatopoeic: like us (. English as we ) to emphasize togetherness. The trademark is now a black Labrador . Earlier (1999, when there was a solar eclipse in August ) the trademark was a total solar eclipse in the colors black and blue.
The Lycos brand is owned by the American Lycos, Inc. , which continues to offer Internet services under this name.
history
The Lycos Europe was a joint venture of Bertelsmann AG with the American Lycos, Inc. established. From 1997 to 2009 , the CEO of Lycos Europe was Christoph Mohn , who belongs to the Bertelsmann family that owns it.
In 1999 and 2000 Lycos acquired the search engines Fireball and Paperball , the Freemail service Firemail and Firecard from Gruner + Jahr and continued the services in its subsidiary FIREBALL Netsearch GmbH . On June 1, 2004, Lycos converted the Freemail service Firemail to the fee-based service "Lycos Mail", which was discontinued in 2009.
In January 2004 Lycos acquired 100% of the shares in the domain registrar united-domains AG , Starnberg. Lycos also took part in the so-called Worldsbiggestchat , a chat community developed in Denmark . Lycos worked with Yahoo! for chat in Germany. and T-Online together.
In 2007 Lycos Europe launched the Jubii Internet platform . Jubii was bought as the leading internet portal in Denmark in 2000 with worldwide naming rights.
Telefónica owned almost a third of the shares through LE Holding Corporation, a subsidiary of Telefónica. Bertelsmann held 20 percent and Christoph Mohn around 12 percent of the shares. The remaining shares, around 35 percent, were in free float. The two main shareholders were unable to find buyers for Lycos after a loss in the first half of 2008 for the company.
In November 2008 it was decided to liquidate Lycos Europe. Parts of the company were sold, the rest discontinued. At an extraordinary general meeting on December 12, it was decided to distribute 50 million euros from the remaining liquid funds to the shareholders on December 19. On December 13, 2008, Lycos Europe announced that it would sell its domain business through its subsidiary united-domains with more than 1 million domains to the United Internet Group for 34 million euros . On February 15, 2009, all e-mail accounts were deleted. Originally, the European version of a web hosting service called Tripod was also to be discontinued. Instead, however, Tripod was taken over by conversis hosting GmbH on February 15, 2009 and continued to operate. The new owner then began selling Tripod across Europe under the brand name MultiMania, which was originally used in France. Another Lycos service called Lycos iQ , a knowledge community in which users could ask any questions and answer (after registering), was sold to Hubert Burda Media in mid-2009 and renamed COSMiQ in October 2009 .
Since the usage rights for the Lycos brand expired in 2010, the company changed its name to Jubii Europe NV
services
Lycos offered a free web hosting service called Tripod. Compared to a regular, paid web host, this had some restrictions (e.g. advertising or a MySQL database with partially restricted rights).
Since the beginning of 2006 the service Lycos iQ was online, a knowledge community in which users could ask any questions and answer (after registration). In mid-2009, Lycos iQ was sold to Hubert Burda Media and renamed COSMiQ in October 2009 .
Web links
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- ↑ Annual report for the year ended December 31, 2011 (PDF; 435 kB)
- ↑ Annual Report 2009 (PDF; 533 kB)
- ↑ Interim report Q1 2010 (PDF; 76 kB)
- ↑ http://ly.lygo.com/ly/srch/hp/lycoslogo.gif
- ↑ Fireball becomes part of Lycos , accessed March 10, 2014
- ↑ Lycos Stomps Firemail , Retrieved March 10, 2014
- ↑ Lycos Shuts Down E-Mail Accounts and Tripod Homepages , accessed on March 10, 2014
- ↑ Shareholder has Lycos Europe's business conduct checked ( Memento of August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Financial Times Deutschland, August 5, 2008
- ↑ a b heise online: The end of Lycos Europe is sealed , December 12th, 2008
- ^ Internet provider Lycos before the end ( memento from December 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Tagesschau.de, November 26, 2008
- ↑ sniffer dog has been barking , Spiegel Online, 26. November 2008
- ↑ Lycos Europe NV sells valuable businesses and ceases unprofitable activities , FinanzNachrichten.de, November 26, 2008
- ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/United-Internet-AG-uebernnahm-Domain-Sparte-von-Lycos-Europe-189551.html United Internet AG takes over the domain division of Lycos Europe
- ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Lycos-schliesst-E-Mail-Konten-und-Tripod-Homepages-Update-198913.html Heise.de - Lycos closes e-mail accounts and tripod Homepages
- ↑ http://conversis.de/doc/Gerettet-Freehosting_Dienst_Tripod_bleibt_online.pdf Press release from conversis about the continued operation of Tripod and the renaming to MultiMania
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