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Re:Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for ... by the_clarence on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:11AM (#18319636)
This is not a very clever point. Plenty of things used to be caller "somethingnet" in order to advertise their ties with the internet. It was never about a tld. Kind of like how having "block" or "chain" in your app's name makes you "cool" nowadays.
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Re:Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for ... by cptskippy on Sunday October 28, 2018 @12:51PM (#18321479)
I wonder if it was to associate with the internet or with Microsoft branding.

Microsoft went apeshit and called all their products .NET in the early 2000s. The branding was all over the place so I could see how calling your product *net might get you installs by association.

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