March 18, 1999 Cyber Selling In the past five months, undoubtedly encouraged by the group's big price gains and volatility, selling by insiders has been heavy in the Internet sector.
Name IPO Insider Sales* Amazon.com 5/14/97 1,339,000 America Online 1992 2,040,000 @Home 7/10/97 1,364,050 Books-a-Million late 1992 1,509,824 Broadcom 4/16/98 3,636,174 CDNOW 2/10/98 2,506,834 Checkpoint Systems 1997 225,000 CNET mid 1996 153,200 Data Broadcasting mid 1992 2,677,889 DoubleClick 2/20/98 254,694 Earthlink early 1997 785,037 EarthWeb 11/10/98 33,693 Egghead mid 1998 684,308 E*trade mid 1996 1,106,325 Excite mid 1996 1,154,723 GeoCities 8/11/98 77000 Infoseek mid 1996 40,000 Inktomi 6/10/98 1,824,360 Lycos early 1996 1,057,295 Micromuse 2/13/98 449,900 MindSpring early 1996 411,008 Netscape Commun mid 1995 209,353 Network Soln 9/25/97 154,036 OnSale 4/17/97 165,000 Open Market early 1996 523,358 Preview Travel 11/20/97 98,206 RealNetworks 11/20/97 322,967 Security Dyn late 1994 11000 Spyglass mid 1995 305,045 US Web 12/5/97 287,539 Verisign 1/29/98 3,188,950 Verity late 1995 82,404 Yahoo early 1996 944,678 *Oct. 1, 1998, through Feb. 25 Source: First Call-Investnet
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