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A comment on ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has about 134 entries. Parent comment

Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by zb3 on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:23PM (#40900185)
Doesn't Google use "go" internally? Is it special cased like localhost?
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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by marksomnian on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:36PM (#40900272)
I believe http://go isn’t special cased, but instead (ab)uses DNS search domains - the server is actually something like go.corp.google.com, and all Google PCs are configured to use corp.google.com as a search domain
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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by Animats on Sunday July 07, 2024 @05:25PM (#40900560)
That's normal DNS behavior. If your machine is foo15241.corp.google.com, and you ask DNS for "go", you are supposed to get "go.corp.google.com".
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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by zamadatix on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:35PM (#40900268)
Unofficial TLDs work fine without being special cased (well, so long as the browser is being pointed at the appropriate DNS server which knows about these entries), it's when the TLD itself is used as a URL you have to enter "http://tld." instead of just typing "tld." but any sub like "example.tld." still works automatically.
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