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> That's not how .nyc is used or is expected to be used. It's a top-level domain, not a dotless host name. While it is prohibited by the ICANN policy [1], it i
by lifthrasiir 7y ago
> That's not how .nyc is used or is expected to be used. It's a top-level domain, not a dotless host name.
While it is prohibited by the ICANN policy [1], it is not strictly enforced so that there are multiple TLDs with A/AAAA records. They traditionally could be resolved with a trailing dot (thus it is not a dotless host name, that would have no dot), but nowadays many browsers refuse to resolve them without an explicit scheme. But they do still exist: try `http://pn./` http://pn./` for example.
[1] https://serverfault.com/a/907228 https://serverfault.com/a/907228
- eru 7y agoHN doesn't like your link's formatting. Try: http://www.pn./ http://www.pn./ or http://www.pn/ http://www.pn/
- distances 7y agoYour .pn link doesn't work for me without www part. At least for https://www.fi/ https://www.fi/ the case is that someone registered "www" as the domain name in the early days.
- lifthrasiir 7y agoHmm, I guess the current browsers simply don't like such domain and automatically put www. At the very least, the Google DNS gives the following: ai. 209.59.119.34 cm. 195.24.205.60 dk. 193.163.102.58 gg. 87.117.196.80 je. 87.117.196.80 pn. 80.68.93.100 tk. 217.119.57.22 uz. 91.212.89.8 ws. 64.70.19.33 But I agree that these domains are now out of luck, given that browsers no longer even remotely support them.
- tropo 7y agoI see that the Vatican has given up. Long ago, http://va/ http://va/ was it. No other name under va existed. Netscape Navigator was able to navigate to that part of the net. It really did make sense for such a tiny place.
- Symbiote 7y agohttp://ai./ http://ai./ is a better example.
- notatoad 7y agoboth pn and ai are giving me DNS errors in chrome on ubuntu.
- Symbiote 7y agoThe DNS server at work (which I maintain... oops) doesn't work, but home and other servers do work: host ai. 1.1.1.1 Using domain server: Name: 1.1.1.1 Address: 1.1.1.1#53 Aliases: ai has address 209.59.119.34 ai mail is handled by 10 mail.offshore.ai.
- FDSGSG 7y agoThis prohibition only applies to gTLDs. It does not apply to ccTLDs.
- lifthrasiir 7y agoAha, thank you for pointing it out---I actually overlooked a very informational RFC that says exactly this [1]. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7085 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7085