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1- Periods (.) don't do anything after a domain (ie www.weebly.com.), but they are useful for preventing the browsers from redirecting to http://www.to.com/ htt

1- Periods (.) don't do anything after a domain (ie www.weebly.com.), but they are useful for preventing the browsers from redirecting to http://www.to.com/ http://www.to.com/ 2- The real domain we're looking at: "to" -- no "suffix" attached (TLD: top-level domain) 3- The .to registry added an A-record for the "to" domain, which resolves correctly. [Edit: Looks like .cm does this too: ;; ANSWER SECTION: cm. 86400 IN A 195.24.205.60]

lecha 17y ago
Does this mean we should expect http://com./ http://com./ http://net./ http://net./ etc?
- iamdanw 17y ago
  Didn't CNet used to use http://com./ http://com./?
  - pauldino 17y ago
    For whatever reason they actually used com.com.
    - tedmielczarek 17y ago
      Because it was the dot-com boom, and what was better than one dot-com? TWO! But yeah, they then proceeded to put everything under .com.com, so they had news.com.com, cnet.com.com etc. It was painfully stupid.
      - seldo 17y ago
        I believe the justification was so they could use unified cookies across all their properties -- they set the cookie for "com.com", and then it was available to news.com.com, search.com.com, downloads.com.com, etc., in the same way that yahoo.com cookies are available to news.yahoo.com, sports.yahoo.com, etc.
  - eli 17y ago
    no, they had com.com (e.g. http://news.com.com/ http://news.com.com/). I believe that domain is now for sale. Probably gets a TON of typo traffic.
qeorge 17y ago
.cm is owned by a spammer. Nearly anything .cm redirects to agoga.net.
- tlrobinson 17y ago
  Kevin Ham: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050989/index.htm http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2...
- NathanKP 17y ago
  org. is interesting. It looks like the Apache server isn't set up correctly.
rythie 17y ago
Actually the period at the end is part of the DNS standard, without it, your machine's search path is searched first (e.g. in resolv.conf on Unix/Linux) So if your ISP is AOL, you might have a search path of aol.com so looking up "to" will first try to.aol.com if that exists it will go there. Putting a "." at the end will let it go straight there. This isn't normally a problem because it's not like aol is going to set up google.com.aol.com. But really everyone should have periods at the end of domains.

lecha 17y ago

Does this mean we should expect http://com./ http://com./ http://net./ http://net./ etc?

iamdanw 17y ago
Didn't CNet used to use http://com./ http://com./?
- pauldino 17y ago
  For whatever reason they actually used com.com.
  - tedmielczarek 17y ago
    Because it was the dot-com boom, and what was better than one dot-com? TWO! But yeah, they then proceeded to put everything under .com.com, so they had news.com.com, cnet.com.com etc. It was painfully stupid.
    - seldo 17y ago
      I believe the justification was so they could use unified cookies across all their properties -- they set the cookie for "com.com", and then it was available to news.com.com, search.com.com, downloads.com.com, etc., in the same way that yahoo.com cookies are available to news.yahoo.com, sports.yahoo.com, etc.
- eli 17y ago
  no, they had com.com (e.g. http://news.com.com/ http://news.com.com/). I believe that domain is now for sale. Probably gets a TON of typo traffic.

qeorge 17y ago

.cm is owned by a spammer. Nearly anything .cm redirects to agoga.net.

tlrobinson 17y ago
Kevin Ham: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050989/index.htm http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2...
NathanKP 17y ago
org. is interesting. It looks like the Apache server isn't set up correctly.

rythie 17y ago

Actually the period at the end is part of the DNS standard, without it, your machine's search path is searched first (e.g. in resolv.conf on Unix/Linux) So if your ISP is AOL, you might have a search path of aol.com so looking up "to" will first try to.aol.com if that exists it will go there. Putting a "." at the end will let it go straight there. This isn't normally a problem because it's not like aol is going to set up google.com.aol.com. But really everyone should have periods at the end of domains.