No better way to find out what Wired LTD (the parent company of Hot Wired and Wired magazine), is up to nowadays than to run a quick search on what domain names (the addresses of the Internet) they own.
Summary of our findings:
Number of total domain names owned by Wired: 30
Number of domain names containing the word “meta”: 4
Number of references to dead despots: 2
Number of references to its own initial public stock offering (IPO): 1
Number of domain names containing the word “deep”: 3
Number of links to Wired on this page: 8
Favorite random domain name owned by Wired: SEXANDVIOLENCE.COM (it doesn’t appear to be open to the public)
The List
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | TALK.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | VIRALNET.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | METABRAIN.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | METASYSTEM.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | METAZINE.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | METAZONE.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | MEGAWIRED.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | WARPNET.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | WIRED100.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | WIREDIPO.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | WIREDTV.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | FUTURATV.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | MUSSOLINI.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | LENIN.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | DEEPHEALTH.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | DEEPNEWS.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | DEEPTRENDS.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | EXONET.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | AETHERNET.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | HAYWIRED.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | HELIXNET.COM |
| Wired Ventures Ltd. | SEXANDVIOLENCE.COM |
| Wired Ventures, Inc. | HOTBOT.COM |
| Wired Ventures, Ltd. | WIRED.COM |
| Wired Ventures, Ltd. | 204.62.132.32 |
| Wired Ventures, Ltd. | HARDWIRED.COM |
| Wired Ventures, Ltd. | WIRED.NET |
| Wired Ventures, Ltd. | 204.62.130.124 |
| Wired Ventures, Ltd. | HOTWIRED.COM |
Find out what domain names your favorite corporations have snapped up!
Search tip: Don't type in the whole domain name. Leave off www & .com (ex. we just entered wired, not www.wired.com), and you'll get all the domain names owned by that company. Have fun.