On 6/5/2012 9:34 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
On 04/06/12 19:10, John Nagle wrote:
Single-word domain names are about to become a common form of
URL.
IMO, Mozilla should not be in favour of this type of word hijacking.
"www.nike", fine. Bare "nike", no. But then, maybe it's up to the user's
DNS configuration rather than us...
It's not theoretical. Some of the country-code TLDs have A
records now. "AC" and "AI", for example, have A records, and web
sites behind then. "AI" resolves to "209.59.119.34",
and really is a valid domain with a web site.
In Firefox 12, putting a plain "ai" into the URL box
results in a Google search. At least the first time.
"ai." (the rarely used rooted domain format) brings up the web
site "ai", which is Offshore Information services. But now that
"ai." has been found as a domain, Firefox will, if asked for
"ai" again, will return the domain, not a Google search.
That's clearly a bug.
Until now, this was mostly a curiosity, but if there's a "FACEBOOK"
TLD, people are going to scream if it behaves like that.
John Nagle
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