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.net domain is for network operators and that sort of thing. Precedes and nothing to do with Microsoft dot net.
by lanstin 5y ago
.net domain is for network operators and that sort of thing. Precedes and nothing to do with Microsoft dot net.
- jeroenhd 5y agoOf course, that's where Microsoft's dumb name probably came from. They already had COM, needed a new name (COM+ sucked) so they went NET.
- pjmlp 5y agoThey went with .NET because it was supposed to bring DCOM into the Cloud via SOAP. Except Cloud still wasn't a thing back then, and we had to go through the whole SOAP, XML-RPC, REST but not really, GraphQL, gRPC fashion cycle to come back to Microsoft's vision of Web APIs.