Hillegass elected to leave his role to start his own dot-com business.

"And some investors blame Jerry for selling 55 percent of his company to a dot-com business whose stock has plummeted."

It may well be a question of whether anyone thinks the issue is worth pursuing in court, given the economic condition of the dot-com business.

"I think it was about people thinking they were going to get rich in the dot-com business."

In the process, Monster has become one of the biggest dot-com businesses around, and the most profitable.

Tai Ping's space was previously occupied by a dot-com business.

He is now in that frantic stage of incubating a dot-com business known as the race to market.

The whole dot-com business is different now than when they began.

"I'm beginning to wonder how much impact this dot-com business may be having" on the decline, she said.

Shunning advertising does not always make sense for a dot-com business, of course.