What's with all the NI.com subdomains?

[The Doctor]

I was looking for the driver station update, for use in the off-season, and it has been removed... weird.

Anyway, I came across several subdomains of NI.com all named after units of energy:


joule.ni.com
lumen.ni.com
decibel.ni.com


Does anyone know why these are there?

[Joe Ross]

It's not uncommon for an organization to name each of its servers based on a theme. Per Wikipedia: However, smaller networks will frequently use a more personalized naming scheme to keep track of the many hosts. Popular naming schemes include trees, planets, rocks, etc.