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Why would corporations drop $200,000 on their own TLD and not even route the bare root to somewhere? ie. this works http://ai http://ai. this does not but cou

by ck2 4y ago

Why would corporations drop $200,000 on their own TLD and not even route the bare root to somewhere? ie. this works http://ai http://ai. this does not but could work? http://bestbuy http://bestbuy. http://bestbuy http://bestbuy will get re-write to .com by firefox, I don't like that, chrome will not re-rewrite

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forgotpwd16 4y ago
Dotless domains on gTLDs are prohibited. Technically can work (albeit with risks not easily solvable as explained in ICANN link) but is not allowed. https://features.icann.org/dotless-domains https://features.icann.org/dotless-domains
- ranger_danger 4y ago
  then how does http://ai/ http://ai/ exist?
  - brewmarche 4y ago
    That’s not a gTLD, it’s a ccTLD. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24442033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24442033 for why it’s allowed on ccTLDs
  - recuter 4y ago
    That only works in Chrome for me so I assume it became sentient somewhere deep in the googleplex and is trying to escape.
    - notpushkin 4y ago
      Works in Waterfox for me as well.
      - recuter 4y ago
        Clearly, it is succeeding.
    - binbag 4y ago
      Doesn't seem to work in Edge.
  - notpushkin 4y ago
    I guess the problem with this is interoperability issues with LAN hostnames.
  - deleted 4y ago
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  - Ekaros 4y ago
    ccTLDs are so old that no actual rules were codified. As such they can do all sort of stuff. Like bare domain names for things like email.
- basch 4y ago
  is http://bestbuy./ http://bestbuy./ dotless? I would think yes, despite the nomenclature, and that there is technically supposed to be a dot after the tdl.
  - jesprenj 4y ago
    You _can_ put a dot at the end, but it's not required https://news.ycombinator.com./ https://news.ycombinator.com./ It's to clearly identify a domain as a FQDN and not as a subdomain of your search domain.
Jorengarenar 4y ago
>http://bestbuy http://bestbuy will get re-write to .com by firefox Really? For me Firefox says it couldn't find the site and only asks if I've meant 'www.bestbuy.com'
- ck2 4y ago
  Ah I am running much older ESR, maybe they finally changed behavior.
- basch 4y ago
  http://bestbuy./ http://bestbuy./ should force a non-rewrite.
autoexec 4y ago
> http://bestbuy http://bestbuy will get re-write to .com by firefox, I don't like that You can disable this in firefox by setting "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled" to "false" in about:config You might have to disable autocomplete too... I always disable that sort of thing. I figure that when I type a URL in the address bar I'm not making a suggestion and I don't want my browser pulling up some other site instead, especially not based on some guess or assumption about what I "actually" wanted.

by ck2 4y ago

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forgotpwd16 4y ago

Dotless domains on gTLDs are prohibited. Technically can work (albeit with risks not easily solvable as explained in ICANN link) but is not allowed. https://features.icann.org/dotless-domains https://features.icann.org/dotless-domains

ranger_danger 4y ago
then how does http://ai/ http://ai/ exist?
- brewmarche 4y ago
  That’s not a gTLD, it’s a ccTLD. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24442033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24442033 for why it’s allowed on ccTLDs
- recuter 4y ago
  That only works in Chrome for me so I assume it became sentient somewhere deep in the googleplex and is trying to escape.
  - notpushkin 4y ago
    Works in Waterfox for me as well.
    - recuter 4y ago
      Clearly, it is succeeding.
  - binbag 4y ago
    Doesn't seem to work in Edge.
- notpushkin 4y ago
  I guess the problem with this is interoperability issues with LAN hostnames.
- deleted 4y ago
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- Ekaros 4y ago
  ccTLDs are so old that no actual rules were codified. As such they can do all sort of stuff. Like bare domain names for things like email.
basch 4y ago
is http://bestbuy./ http://bestbuy./ dotless? I would think yes, despite the nomenclature, and that there is technically supposed to be a dot after the tdl.
- jesprenj 4y ago
  You _can_ put a dot at the end, but it's not required https://news.ycombinator.com./ https://news.ycombinator.com./ It's to clearly identify a domain as a FQDN and not as a subdomain of your search domain.

Jorengarenar 4y ago

>http://bestbuy http://bestbuy will get re-write to .com by firefox Really? For me Firefox says it couldn't find the site and only asks if I've meant 'www.bestbuy.com'

ck2 4y ago
Ah I am running much older ESR, maybe they finally changed behavior.
basch 4y ago
http://bestbuy./ http://bestbuy./ should force a non-rewrite.

autoexec 4y ago

> http://bestbuy http://bestbuy will get re-write to .com by firefox, I don't like that You can disable this in firefox by setting "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled" to "false" in about:config You might have to disable autocomplete too... I always disable that sort of thing. I figure that when I type a URL in the address bar I'm not making a suggestion and I don't want my browser pulling up some other site instead, especially not based on some guess or assumption about what I "actually" wanted.