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Didn't CNet used to use http://com./ http://com./?

• pauldino 17y ago
  For whatever reason they actually used com.com.
  • tedmielczarek 17y ago
    Because it was the dot-com boom, and what was better than one dot-com? TWO! But yeah, they then proceeded to put everything under .com.com, so they had news.com.com, cnet.com.com etc. It was painfully stupid.
    • seldo 17y ago
      I believe the justification was so they could use unified cookies across all their properties -- they set the cookie for "com.com", and then it was available to news.com.com, search.com.com, downloads.com.com, etc., in the same way that yahoo.com cookies are available to news.yahoo.com, sports.yahoo.com, etc.
• eli 17y ago
  no, they had com.com (e.g. http://news.com.com/ http://news.com.com/). I believe that domain is now for sale. Probably gets a TON of typo traffic.