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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://fe
by 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 agothen how does http://ai/ http://ai/ exist?
- brewmarche 4y agoThat’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 agoThat only works in Chrome for me so I assume it became sentient somewhere deep in the googleplex and is trying to escape.
- notpushkin 4y agoWorks in Waterfox for me as well.
- recuter 4y agoClearly, it is succeeding.
- binbag 4y agoDoesn't seem to work in Edge.
- notpushkin 4y agoI guess the problem with this is interoperability issues with LAN hostnames.
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- Ekaros 4y agoccTLDs 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 agois 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 agoYou _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.