On topic of domains

Guillaume Parent gparent at gparent.org
Thu Jul 11 16:42:50 UTC 2013


Most of us would have no problem doing it, but the majority of users don't
even understand why there's dots in the first place let any why they'd need
to put one for nyc but not for facebook.com

-gp


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Chris Hills <chaz at chaz6.com> wrote:

> On 11/07/2013 15:27, Jon Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > After .nyc thread, thought this IAB announcement may be of interest.
> >
> >
> http://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence-reports-documents/2013-2/iab-statement-dotless-domains-considered-harmful/
> >
> > -Jon
> >
>
> Whilst I am not a fan of dotless domains, as long as one uses the fully
> qualified domain name (e.g. http://ac./), there should not be any
> trouble using it in any sane software. It seems that most people aren't
> aware these days that a fqdn includes the trailing period (by definition).
>
>
>



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