Curio City

Curio City, also known as CURIOCITY CORP., was a website that users could use to host and manage their own webstores, established on March 10th, 2000.https://web.archive.org/web/20030801082751/http://www.curio-city.com/help/ind_company.html It was similar to Amazon or Etsy, in that you could use the website itself to search through other webstores, but could also be used to configure custom webstores. 
In April of 2005, the Yahoo! Japan Corporation bought Curio City. Due to the buyout, on July 13th of 2005, Curio City announced that it would be ending it's services on September 30th, 2005,https://web.archive.org/web/20050731024327/http://www.curio-city.com/curio/end_info.html except for their "point exchange service", which was available until noon of October 31st, 2005.https://web.archive.org/web/20051030095002/http://www.curio-city.com:80/ Despite ending services sitewide on September 30th, archives for the Kids Select store run via Curio City are available through the Wayback Machine until December of 2005. 
Curio City hosted Kids Station's online "Kids Select" webstore. They sold DVDs, CDs, toys, and other merchandise for programs that were broadcasted on Kids Station, including most of Popee the Performer's merchandise. For more on the Kids Select shop, please refer to the Kids Select page.
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