Every ten years I fiddle around with DNS and look for these weird names where the top level domain resolves to an actual address. It's funny to refer to these

Every ten years I fiddle around with DNS and look for these weird names where the top level domain resolves to an actual address. It's funny to refer to these as "dotless" since you still need a dot, on the end, to "canonize" the name and tell your DNS recursor 'hey, stop appending domains to see if you can find this.' And, our recent history has "Canonized" a new pope, and you could (maybe?) look it up against one of the few dotless global DNS entries, but it's still going to need the trailing dot to tell your recursor that it's a canonical name...