CNET 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

CNET 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.