When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by jameshawkins on Thursday June 25, 2020 @06:12PM (#23646356)

I just tried this on Safari on my phone - I was sent to Realtor.com as well. I tried it a few times and was redirected each time, even though I typed "realty.com" in the URL bar (and it didn't auto-correct before I hit "Go").

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by donmcronald on Thursday June 25, 2020 @06:26PM (#23646474)

Wow. I'd be livid if I were this guy. That's an expensive domain. Even if it's in the history, the browser shouldn't be guessing at what to do when it gets exact instructions.

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by snowwrestler on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:15PM (#23647341)

I typed in realty.com and went straight to realty.com. iPhone 11 running iOS 13.5.1. I can’t reproduce any of these behaviors.

Edit: I have “Suggestions in Search” turned off, maybe that’s it?

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by dannyw on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:08PM (#23647702)

Of course that’s it!

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by nihahs on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:05AM (#23648873)

But it's working fine for me. On iPhone 11 with the latest version of iOS.

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by dannyw on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:17AM (#23648923)

Are you in the US? Suggestions are locale specific.

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by pbreit on Thursday June 25, 2020 @06:24PM (#23646453)

Me, too. Absolutely should not happen. Will give the benefit of the doubt that it's a glitch. Still unacceptable, certainly for a .com.

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by MiroF on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:13PM (#23647322)

This is also happening on my Macbook's Safari

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by kace91 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:32PM (#23646994)

It doesn’t work for me. I wonder if it’s location related? I’m in spain if it makes any difference.

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by kevinschumacher on Thursday June 25, 2020 @11:53PM (#23648523)

Any chance you were using private browsing?

When I enable private browsing, Safari correctly takes me to realty.com

When I disable private browsing, Safari takes me to realtor.com

I am in the US

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by CGamesPlay on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:44PM (#23647095)

Is your phone in English? That seems more likely to be related.

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by 542458 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:46PM (#23647106)

My phone is in English, but I didn’t get the redirect. I’m in Canada.

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by lutoma on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:52PM (#23647154)

Didn't happen for me either in Germany (despite English iOS). May be US-specific?

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by ZekeSulastin on Friday June 26, 2020 @10:42AM (#23652496)

iPhone 11 on the iOS 14 beta and it takes me to realty.com as desired. Wonder if it's just inconsistency or something that has been fixed.

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by moksly on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:52AM (#23649410)

I just tried and I went to realty.com. I’m Danish but I set the keyboard to English and it still sent me to realty.com.

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