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301 days ago when the bidding started I posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4109767 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4109767 I guess I told

• ethomson 14y ago
  This is no different than if you made google.com.mytld.com, is it? You can, of course, still bypass default suffixes by using a trailing dot. That is to say, http://search./ http://search./ or http://apple./ http://apple./ in your example, or http://google.com./ http://google.com./ in mine.
  • mparlane 14y ago
    It's obvious that your google example is bad, as google redirects you to the host without the dot as soon as it can. So if you really were running a local .com domain named google.com, it wouldn't exactly be easy to get to the real google.