I believe that users are still confused by the fact that company.com may not be the same as company.net, so it's good to hold the .com domain. Fortunately, the

I believe that users are still confused by the fact that company.com may not be the same as company.net, so it's good to hold the .com domain. Fortunately, these days people seem to Google what they want or use auto-completing browsers, which make specific domains a little less important. There's also the practice of using .com for the public site and .net for the company intranet, which can be nice for making it obvious what's protected behind the firewall.