3 ms·

Interesting URL there. A dot after the tld, and hosted on ntlworld, which was once the UK's most hated ISP (now owned by virgin and hated very slightly less.)

tententen 15y ago
A dot after the tld That's actually how it's supposed to be done: http://www.dns-sd.org/TrailingDotsInDomainNames.html http://www.dns-sd.org/TrailingDotsInDomainNames.html "It's a little-known fact, but fully-qualified (unambiguous) DNS domain names have a dot at the end. People running DNS servers usually know this (if you miss the trailing dots out, your DNS configuration is unlikely to work) but the general public usually doesn't. A domain name that doesn't have a dot at the end is not fully-qualified and is potentially ambiguous. This was documented in the DNS specification, RFC 1034, way back in 1987 ..." but the site works just fine without the trailing dot as well.
- djcapelis 15y ago
  > but the site works just fine without the trailing dot as well. In your current environment! And probably in all the environments connected to the Internet. But potentially without the dot it would be perfect valid for this to route elsewhere in someone's environment. :)
  - easp 15y ago
    Netpick: "resolve elsewhere," not "route elsewhere"
    - djcapelis 15y ago
      Upvote for correction. Thanks!
julian37 15y ago
The dot after the tld is optional (if you don't need to specify a fully-qualified DNS name). Try for example: http://news.ycombinator.com./item?id=3438428 http://news.ycombinator.com./item?id=3438428 EDIT: I learned something new today, adding the trailing dot can be a good idea: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/web-fully-qualified-domain-name.html http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/we...
- mike-cardwell 15y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com./ https://news.ycombinator.com./ Chrome doesn't accept the certificate when the trailing dot is in the request. I bet if you configured your site to redirect to a URL with a trailing dot, it would break a lot of badly written robots. I'd be interested to hear about how it affects the major search engines before I'd want to implement it on any important sites.

tententen 15y ago

A dot after the tld That's actually how it's supposed to be done: http://www.dns-sd.org/TrailingDotsInDomainNames.html http://www.dns-sd.org/TrailingDotsInDomainNames.html "It's a little-known fact, but fully-qualified (unambiguous) DNS domain names have a dot at the end. People running DNS servers usually know this (if you miss the trailing dots out, your DNS configuration is unlikely to work) but the general public usually doesn't. A domain name that doesn't have a dot at the end is not fully-qualified and is potentially ambiguous. This was documented in the DNS specification, RFC 1034, way back in 1987 ..." but the site works just fine without the trailing dot as well.

djcapelis 15y ago
> but the site works just fine without the trailing dot as well. In your current environment! And probably in all the environments connected to the Internet. But potentially without the dot it would be perfect valid for this to route elsewhere in someone's environment. :)
- easp 15y ago
  Netpick: "resolve elsewhere," not "route elsewhere"
  - djcapelis 15y ago
    Upvote for correction. Thanks!

julian37 15y ago

The dot after the tld is optional (if you don't need to specify a fully-qualified DNS name). Try for example: http://news.ycombinator.com./item?id=3438428 http://news.ycombinator.com./item?id=3438428 EDIT: I learned something new today, adding the trailing dot can be a good idea: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/web-fully-qualified-domain-name.html http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/we...

mike-cardwell 15y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com./ https://news.ycombinator.com./ Chrome doesn't accept the certificate when the trailing dot is in the request. I bet if you configured your site to redirect to a URL with a trailing dot, it would break a lot of badly written robots. I'd be interested to hear about how it affects the major search engines before I'd want to implement it on any important sites.