And while the .com crash proved that a well-chosen name isn’t enough for a successful company, .coms still play a very important part of our online lives. Despite many other top-level domains available, .com is still the most coveted TLD — the one that many people still associate with the world wide web in general.

In 1997, when the Internet was start booming there were about one million dot-coms had been registered. When the first dot-com addresses were registered, no one expected it would become as pervasive in our lives as it is today. Today, there are about 80 million dot-com sites.

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• 64 Mac Minis doing continuous builds and tests

And here are some from the Google Chrome for Linux team:

• 60,000 lines of Linux-specific code written
• 23 developer builds
• 2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed
• 12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base, 48 external code contributors

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