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One obscure downside of having so many TLDs is that if you type something like "chrome.search" in the address bar and press Enter, it won't search for "chrome.s
by NVI 4y ago
One obscure downside of having so many TLDs is that if you type something like "chrome.search" in the address bar and press Enter, it won't search for "chrome.search" in your default search engine. It will try to navigate to it (unsuccessfully), because ".search" is a TLD nowadays.
- agubelu 4y agoOr successfully, to a phishing site...
- lathiat 4y agoI do this all the time with the iPhone keyboard. Because the dot is only there for URLs it’s exactly where I normally hit the spacebar at (which expands to fill where the dot for URLs is). Drives me nuts. I can’t be the only one.
- throwanem 4y agoNope. Drives me up a wall.
- user3939382 4y agoAs far as I can tell this bites 100% of iOS users and is objectively bad design.
- zodiakzz 4y agoStart with a space.
- drdec 4y agoI would contend that that is a downside of combining the url and search entry fields in the browser, not a downside of having many TLDs.