Word: ipos
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...going to brag about it? Some saw an economic motive or a Quixotic tilt at the commercialization of the Internet. After all, our phantom had managed to interrupt one of Wall Street's sacred rituals: the dotcom IPO of Buy.com which was hit by a DOS attack on Tuesday afternoon, before the end of its first day as a publicly traded company. The stock had reached a peak of $30.25, then closed at an unspectacular $25.12. Just when Buy.com chief executive Gregory Hawkins should have been popping champagne corks, he was hunkering down in an emergency session with his techies...