As indeed they actually are. WWW browsers have a search path, that is added on to a second search path mechanism that DNS client libraries have. Domain names

As indeed they actually are. WWW browsers have a search path, that is added on to a second search path mechanism that DNS client libraries have. Domain names with dots in, but that are not fully qualified, suffer from this. Yes, this means that what http://wibble/ http://wibble/ is right now is subject to change; and even http://wibble.wobble/ http://wibble.wobble/ could be, depending from various factors. * http://jdebp.eu./FGA/web-fully-qualified-domain-name.html http://jdebp.eu./FGA/web-fully-qualified-domain-name.html Would that I had recorded the case some while back where, when I pointed this out, someone chimed in to note that xe had worked for a company that had actually taken advantage of this in order to usurp external WWW sites. And then there was WPAD. * http://jdebp.eu./FGA/web-browser-auto-proxy-configuration.html#WPAD http://jdebp.eu./FGA/web-browser-auto-proxy-configuration.ht... This is not taking things to an extreme. This is reality right now and has been for many years.