How the heck is http://to./ a valid domain name?

Posted by Chris on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Chris
Published on 2009-12-03T18:09:48Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 23:43 UTC
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Apparently it's a URL shortener. It resolves just fine in Chrome and Firefox. How is this a valid top-level domain?

Update: for the people saying it's browser shenanigans, why is it that: http://com./ does not take me to: http://www.com/?

And, do browsers ever send you a response from some place other than what's actually up in the address bar? Aside from framesets and things like that, I thought browsers tried really hard to send you content only from the site in the address bar, to help guard against phishing.

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