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Also, in 2000, InfoSpace used a controversial accounting method to report $46 million in profits when in fact it had lost $282 million. Company executives skirted [[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission|SEC]] trading restrictions to sell large blocks of their personal stock.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002199042_dotcon2main07.html |title=Dot-Con Job&nbsp;— Part 2: Cashing Out&nbsp;— When times got tough, execs hid troubles, dumped stock |accessdate=September 13, 2013 |publisher=The Seattle Times | first1=David | last1=Heath | date=March 7, 2005}}</ref>
 
Jain resumed the role of CEO in 2001,<ref name="INFOSPACE-INC-Jan-2001-8-K">{{cite web |url=http://googlepdf.brand.edgar-onlinesecdatabase.com/EFX_dll2235/EDGARpro0001032210-01-000078.dll?FetchFilingHTML1?ID=39251&SessionID=kXRfHqxOZWy6c27pdf |title=INFOSPACE INC, (Form: 8-K, Received:Current 01/23/2001Report, 17:15:42Filing |publisher=google.brand.edgar-online.comDate |accessdate=JuneJan 723, 20112001 |deadurlpublisher=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710170656/http://google.brand.edgar-onlinesecdatabase.com/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?FetchFilingHTML1%3FID=39251&SessionID=kXRfHqxOZWy6c27 |archivedateaccessdate =JulyMay 1015, 2011 |df=mdy 2018}}</ref> but was forced out by InfoSpace's board as chairman and CEO in December 2002.<ref name="PSBJ Ties">{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2003/04/28/daily5.html|title=InfoSpace severs final ties with founder Jain|publisher=[[Puget Sound Business Journal]]|date=April 28, 2003|accessdate=June 7, 2011}}</ref>
 
By June 2002, the company's stock price, which reached $1,305 in March 2000,<ref>[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/art/news/business/infospace/infospaceTimelineDay1_2_intro.swf The two faces of InfoSpace, 1998–2001]</ref> had dropped to $2.67.<ref name=seattletimes>{{cite news |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002198103_dotcon1main06.html |title=Dot-Con Job&nbsp;— Part 1: Dubious Deals&nbsp;— How InfoSpace took its investors for a ride: Business & Technology: The Seattle Times |accessdate=September 13, 2013 | first1=David | last1=Heath | date=March 6, 2005}}</ref>
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