Halfway is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States. The city took its publicize from the location of its declare office, on the Alexander Stalker ranch, halfway in the midst of Pine and Jim Town. The population was 288 at the 2010 census.

During the dot-com bubble, Halfway entirely to rename itself Half.com for a year as a marketing stunt for the e-commerce company of the thesame name.

The community was named for the fact it is approximately halfway amid Pine and Cornucopia. While a make known office was time-honored in 1887, the town was platted in another location in 1907, the state office moved there in 1908, and it incorporated in 1909.

Halfway earned a place in the records of the dot-com period in December 1999, when it established and well-liked an meet the expense of to rename itself as Half.com, after the e-commerce start-up, for one year in row for $110,000; 20 computers for the school; and additional financial subsidies. It became the first city in the world to rename itself as a dot com. Among the less obvious reasons the town was agreed were its small population size (and thus its likelihood to accept such an offer) and the city’s location, which fit perfectly into Half.com’s marketing scheme. “They’re within four miles of the 45th parallel which makes it halfway between the equator and the North Pole”. The sworn statement did not legally bend its name. The city created and posted two signs at its borders that greeted visitors with “America’s First Dot-com City”. The city auctioned one of these off in September 2007 for $1000; the winner was Half.com’s founder Josh Kopelman.