Maybe we (or our software) needs to start requiring the period on the end of fully-qualified domain names? That way "test1" is a local name (relative to the de

Maybe we (or our software) needs to start requiring the period on the end of fully-qualified domain names? That way "test1" is a local name (relative to the default search path), and "test1." is a TLD. In theory, that's already the way it works, except that most software treats the trailing period as optional.