Defunct online companies

Boo.com was a short-lived British e-commerce business, founded in 1998 by Swedes Ernst Malmsten, Kajsa Leander and Patrik Hedelin, who were regarded as sophisticated Internet entrepreneurs in Europe by the investors because they had created an online bookstore named Bokus.com, the third largest book e-retailer (in 1997), before founding boo.com.

CDP.pl Sp. z o.o. was a Polish publisher and video game, film, e-book, and audiobook distributor founded in 1994 as CD Projekt sp. z o.o. It was renamed to CDP.pl Sp. z o.o. in 2012. It became independent from the CD Projekt group in November 2014 after a management buyout. In January 2015, the company was expanded to include paper books, music, consoles, computer hardware, as well as tabletop, card, and figure games. In February 2017, the site was sold to Merlin Group.

Desura was a digital distribution platform for the Microsoft Windows, Linux and OS X platforms. The service distributed games and related media online, with a primary focus on small independent game developers rather than larger companies. Desura contained automated game updates, community features, and developer resources. The client allowed users to create and distribute game mods as well.