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How does this .com.com work? (I am being serious here) Can I get a .com.com?
by auston 17y ago
How does this .com.com work?
(I am being serious here) Can I get a .com.com?
- philwelch 17y agoCnet bought com.com a long time ago and use it as a publicity stunt.
- BobbyH 17y agoCNET used to do something sneaky whereby they used domain.com.com on many of their domains to inflate their unique visitor counts. That way, when somebody typed http://mistake.com.com http://mistake.com.com, they'd be counted as a unique visitor to the com.com TLD which hosted all CNET sites. This way, they could tell advertisers that they reached 99% of the Internet via their com.com domain. It was really annoying to type in http://www.cnet.com http://www.cnet.com, and be redirected to http://cnet.com.com.. http://cnet.com.com... Apparently, they've stopped doing this. Now, typing in, say, http://mistake.com.com http://mistake.com.com ends up doing a search for "mistake" on CNET's search engine, search.com.