Many big retailers have died since the rise of the web and e-commerce — either by being snatched up and killed off by their competition, or by failing to adapt and going bankrupt.
Even so, a lot of them don't disappear completely. The brands strive on in some form.
At the least, their domain names survive as the last remnant of once-great brands.
So what happens when you plug in the old domain names of these dead retailers?
Well, some of them really are dead, only living through a zombie domain that redirects you to the new owner's site.
Other brands, though, have been resurrected.
Hollywood Video, once the biggest rival of Blockbuster, perished when parent Movie Gallery went bust in 2010. But the brand is still alive in a totally new online form.
The brand has been reborn as an "entertainment news curator" at HollywoodVideo.com.
KB Toys went bankrupt twice in five years and liquidated in 2008. Toys "R" Us snatched up the website and intellectual property.
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