Re:Tech press misses Google/Amazon name grab
by icebraining on Friday June 15, 2012 @08:49PM
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Some ccTLDs do have A records, though, like http://ac
great example!!!
i just tried to submit
http://ac/
Re:Tech press misses Google/Amazon name grab
by Sami_Lehtinen on Saturday June 16, 2012 @03:44AM
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Yeah, it's common to have bad url or email address validation. Many sites do not accept short email addresses at all. As example a @bc.de (space is there intentionally). When it becomes a @ bc then it's interesting to see how many sites will fail with that.
I believe that TLDs with A records should resolve correctly if you add a period to the end, as in "http://ac.. As I recall, this came up when the "http://to. link shortener [no longer available] was discussed a while ago.
Re:Tech press misses Google/Amazon name grab
by because on Saturday June 16, 2012 @07:00PM
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What browser are you using? This worked in my browser.
Re:Tech press misses Google/Amazon name grab
by ajasmin on Saturday June 16, 2012 @03:51AM
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With the current trend of combining the address and search bar I doubt browsers will let you go to e.g. http://lol when you type "lol" in the bar.
In fact I just checked that typing "ac" in the Chrome omnibox makes a Google search for "ac" as I would expect. So the value of having an A record on a TLD is limited.
Edit: Somehow I missed the bar on top of the search results that says "Did you mean to go to http://ac " so there's some value after all.
Put another way, if I'm Microsoft, can I put my website at http://microsoft? Or do I have to use http://www.microsoft?
I've looked to see if there is a policy from ICANN on this, but I can't find one. Historically, TLDs did not themselves point to hosts (or have other things like MX or TXT records).