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How perplexing that it works at all! I want to know how that works.
by lioeters 7y ago
How perplexing that it works at all! I want to know how that works.
- colejohnson66 7y agoIt’s just a TLD that actually resolves; Most don’t. For example, http://com./ http://com./ doesn’t resolve even though it has “subdomains”. This does though beg the question: can a second level domain (root website) have (what we call) subdomains and not resolve itself? For example, example.example.com would resolve, but example.com wouldn’t?
- BenjiWiebe 7y agoShould be easy to set up, especially if you have your own authoritative DNS server. Just don't publish an A record for your main domain.
- lioeters 7y agoThanks for the clarification. I see, so an owner can choose to resolve the top-level domain by itself, I didn't know that. When I visit "com.", indeed it doesn't resolve and the browser falls back to "www.com" (which exists). That makes me wonder, if I wanted a TLD by itself to resolve to my own site, is it even feasible for a "regular person"? What's served on "http://pn/" http://pn/" looks like someone's experiment, but I guess they must own the TLD (or have connections to the owner)..?
- naniwaduni 7y agoYes, this is quite common.