[142195] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Mon Jun 20 00:22:48 2011
To: Adam Atkinson <ghira@mistral.co.uk>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:44:33 +0100."
<4DFEC221.90902@mistral.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:20:48 +1000
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <4DFEC221.90902@mistral.co.uk>, Adam Atkinson writes:
> Adam Atkinson wrote:
>
> >>>> It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown
> >>>> http://dk,
> >>>> the home page of Denmark, some time in the mid 90s.
> >>>>
> >> DK should NOT be doing this.
> >
> > Oh, I'm not claiming it does it now. It certainly doesn't.
>
> I should have checked before I wrote that. The _last_ time I tried it
> it redirected to something else in Denmark but that was also years
> ago, just not as many as I think I remember being shown http://dk
>
> _Now_ I get rend up at http://www.dk.com/ if I don't
That's your browser "trying" to be helpful. If it is Firefox this
can be turned off with about:config and browser.fixup.alternate.enabled
to false. The default is true.
> put a dot on the end, and https://www.dk-hostmaster.dk/ if I do.
Safari, Mozilla and Google Chrome all fail to resolve "http://dk/" on my
Mac but all resolve "http://dk./".
Mark
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