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Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code by leifmetcalf on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:11PM (#18453995)
How does the url http://redacted/ work? I've never seen a url without a tld on the end.

Could I register the domain http://foo ?

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Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code by xtrapolate on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:13PM (#18454013)
> "How does the url http://redacted/ work?"

I apologize for the confusion. I used an actual server there (ie. http://somename.com) but chose to redact the actual URL from this post.

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Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code by leifmetcalf on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:26PM (#18454128)
Ah, that explains it. The link actually works, though.
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Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code by pseudoanonymity on Friday November 16, 2018 @02:40PM (#18471386)
Browser may autocomplete .com when given address starting with http://
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Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code by dc_gregory on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:49PM (#18454952)
Not for me! Might want to ask your ISP whats going on?
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Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code by bmn__ on Friday November 16, 2018 @08:20AM (#18468511)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example_domain
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Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code by snek on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:58PM (#18454439)
in this case, `redacted` itself is the tld. the company that owns `.redacted` (Redacted, Inc) has chosen to serve A records for it, which is rather uncommon.

For a while, the owners of `.ai` had a similar arrangement, but it seems to have been since taken down.

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Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code by mehrdadn on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:13PM (#18454012)
They meant they redacted the URL, not that the URL was literally "http://redacted".
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