Funny enough, I visited a site for some task or other just yesterday for which I just typed the base domain, and got ... nothing. It still required the "www."

Funny enough, I visited a site for some task or other just yesterday for which I just typed the base domain, and got ... nothing. It still required the "www." prefix -- no redirect, "ANAME" DNS-side hacks, VIPs or anything in place to make the base domain a reachable URL. This new Chrome change, if it's truly doing naive subdomain hiding, would be a really bad UX for sites like that.