DotComGuy

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DotComGuy was the name of a former computing systems manager who legally changed his name to DotComGuy from Mitch Maddox in 2000. His project was to live for one year (beginning on January 1, 2000) without leaving his house in Dallas, Texas, ordering all food and necessities off the Internet and having them delivered. The house was monitored 24/7 and several video feeds were streamed online.

The project had a large number of sponsors including United Parcel Service, 3Com, Network Solutions, Piper Jaffray, Travelocity and Peapod.

It attracted a lot of attention in the media at first, but gradually public interest faded away. In early 2001, a web site run by "Pud" Kaplan claimed that due to the dotcom crash of mid 2000, Mitch did not get the roughly $100,000 cash bonus he had been promised by some investors for successfully living "online" for the entire year. It was later claimed that this was a mutal agreement, that had been required to pay for keeping the project online for the entire year.

In the end of the project, DotComGuy legally changed his name back to Mitch Maddox and auctioned off http://DotComGuy.com. As of 2007, the domain still exists and is in use by a domain parker.

Every year on 30 December DotComGuy joins his fans in a day long irc chat session at irc.urgo.org #DotComGuy

Mitch Maddox now works in Dallas, Texas for Riverstone Residential Group as the Director of Systems Integration.