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Re:This is a valid domain name (remove www) by bombcar on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:45PM (#31689779)
The period forces it to actually do a lookup. Without it it may be only asking the local dns server or appending the default domain.
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Re:This is a valid domain name (remove www) by aquanext on Friday June 10, 2022 @12:04AM (#31689898)
http://microsoft.com./
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