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That's what the spec says. In practice, no one uses fully-qualified domains, and users who generally do not even know they exist rightly assume any domain name
by Cushman 14y ago
That's what the spec says. In practice, no one uses fully-qualified domains, and users who generally do not even know they exist rightly assume any domain name ending in a TLD should take them to the site indicated by that root, and it's surprising and confusing if it does not.
Which is why it's pretty different from relative vs. absolute paths, which is a much-used and generally well-understood distinction.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoThis is really going to blow up with the new gTLDs though, there is so much more room for conflict between root DNS and local DNS with so many more TLDs.
- Cushman 14y agoNot the only problem gTLDs are going to cause, either. I'm still hoping they pull the plug on the whole concept.