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great example!!! i just tried to submit http://ac/ to hackernews. guess what? it didn't work.

• Sami_Lehtinen 14y ago
  Yeah, it's common to have bad url or email address validation. Many sites do not accept short email addresses at all. As example a @bc.de (space is there intentionally). When it becomes a @ bc then it's interesting to see how many sites will fail with that.
• because 14y ago
  What browser are you using? This worked in my browser.
• Cyranix 14y ago
  I believe that TLDs with A records should resolve correctly if you add a period to the end, as in "http://ac. http://ac.. As I recall, this came up when the "http://to. http://to. link shortener [no longer available] was discussed a while ago.