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This still won't fix the bat-shit-stupid idea of browser developers to just forward anything they think is not resolvable (and often even if it IS a valid local

• Joker_vD 5y ago
  IIRC all browsers try to perform name resolution if you append "/" at the end of your input in the address bar. After that fails they redirect to a search engine, but not before.
• d2wa 5y ago
  Well, browsers do a very sensible thing of attempting to anything that is a valid domain names. For everything else, including undelegated (and therefore unresolvable) top-level domains get passed on as search queries. Forwarding as much traffic to search engines is how they make money, after all. If you don’t like it, stick to valid domains.