"Topix, jointly majority-owned by Gannett, Tribune and McClatchy, is migrating the site from the .net domain to Topix.com, and will launch it later tonight. The site will also get a significant change of focus from being a news search engine with comments/discussions, to a citizen-journalism news site, which will also have news search as part of it ..." more

Background and more details:
What do you do when your success ... sucks?
by Rich Skrenta (CEO Topix)
Earlier entry:
Topix.net mit Gratis Classified Ads