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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 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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