Yes - bear in mind the URL class has been around since 1995, when the landscape was somewhat different! At that point, URLs resolving to the same IP were consi

Yes - bear in mind the URL class has been around since 1995, when the landscape was somewhat different! At that point, URLs resolving to the same IP were considered equal, even if the host names were different. Even now, there’s no real difference between say “http://example.com” http://example.xn--com-9o0a and “http://example.com:80”; http://example.com:80”; it would have been reasonable to consider these equal.