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Oh. The link is to http://coffeemakerspot/ http://coffeemakerspot/ I was redirected to http://coffeemakerspot.com/ http://coffeemakerspot.com/ But the redire
by mooism2 15y ago
Oh.
The link is to http://coffeemakerspot/ http://coffeemakerspot/
I was redirected to http://coffeemakerspot.com/ http://coffeemakerspot.com/
But the redirection was done by my browser (Firefox). I had assumed that coffeemakerspot was resolving in its own right.
Either HN shouldn't accept the link, or it should show the domain name it putatively links to. As it is, it displays as if the link is to the comments page, but it is actually to the external url.
- frou_dh 15y agoThink a bit. If unadorned custom TLDs were valid, the ownership and benefit of them would have been a huge topic on all our minds for years.
- mooism2 15y agoI vaguely remembered ICANN talking about allowing them. No idea where they are in the process. Don't really pay much attention to things like this as "unusual" domains are irrelevant unless you're being obtuse/cutesy or running a url shortening service.