Cloudflare Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 Financial Results

Re:Cloudflare Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 ... by xorx on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:10PM (#26108065)

Maybe I'm too old, and stuck in the mud with the pre-ICANN intention of the original TLDs, but does it seem odd to anyone else that they host their network services on .com and their corporate information on .net?

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Re:Cloudflare Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 ... by judge2020 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:17PM (#26108156)

I think the joke here is that their stock symbol is NET.

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Re:Cloudflare Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 ... by azinman2 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:40PM (#26108381)

Surprised they could get that after all the net related terminology in the early 2000s.

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Re:Cloudflare Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 ... by lazerpants on Thursday February 11, 2021 @06:23PM (#26108886)

Your comment sent me down a research hole. Turns out, stock ticker symbols can be reused but I can find no evidence that NET was used before, which seems impossible.

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Re:Cloudflare Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 ... by mike_d on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:52PM (#26109952)

Cloudflare.net is behind Cloudflare, but the actual site is hosted by Q4. They provide hosted investor relations portals for a bunch of publicly traded companies.

Putting it on a non-cloudflare.com domain puts it outside the security context of the main site and they don't have to worry if it gets hacked. Google does something similar by hosting third-party stuff on withgoogle.com and a handful of other domains.

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