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Can someone give me a quick introduction on how this was done?

• Raphael 17y ago
  A-record by the ISP that runs the .to TLD.
  • markmywords 17y ago
    Thx, got confused by the dot after "to" for a second.
• drusenko 17y ago
  1- Periods (.) don't do anything after a domain (ie www.weebly.com.), but they are useful for preventing the browsers from redirecting to http://www.to.com/ http://www.to.com/ 2- The real domain we're looking at: "to" -- no "suffix" attached (TLD: top-level domain) 3- The .to registry added an A-record for the "to" domain, which resolves correctly. [Edit: Looks like .cm does this too: ;; ANSWER SECTION: cm. 86400 IN A 195.24.205.60]
  • lecha 17y ago
    Does this mean we should expect http://com./ http://com./ http://net./ http://net./ etc?
    • iamdanw 17y ago
      Didn't CNet used to use http://com./ http://com./?
      • pauldino 17y ago
        For whatever reason they actually used com.com.
        • tedmielczarek 17y ago
          Because it was the dot-com boom, and what was better than one dot-com? TWO! But yeah, they then proceeded to put everything under .com.com, so they had news.com.com, cnet.com.com etc. It was painfully stupid.
          • seldo 17y ago
            I believe the justification was so they could use unified cookies across all their properties -- they set the cookie for "com.com", and then it was available to news.com.com, search.com.com, downloads.com.com, etc., in the same way that yahoo.com cookies are available to news.yahoo.com, sports.yahoo.com, etc.
      • eli 17y ago
        no, they had com.com (e.g. http://news.com.com/ http://news.com.com/). I believe that domain is now for sale. Probably gets a TON of typo traffic.
  • qeorge 17y ago
    .cm is owned by a spammer. Nearly anything .cm redirects to agoga.net.
    • tlrobinson 17y ago
      Kevin Ham: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050989/index.htm http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2...
    • NathanKP 17y ago
      org. is interesting. It looks like the Apache server isn't set up correctly.
  • rythie 17y ago
    Actually the period at the end is part of the DNS standard, without it, your machine's search path is searched first (e.g. in resolv.conf on Unix/Linux) So if your ISP is AOL, you might have a search path of aol.com so looking up "to" will first try to.aol.com if that exists it will go there. Putting a "." at the end will let it go straight there. This isn't normally a problem because it's not like aol is going to set up google.com.aol.com. But really everyone should have periods at the end of domains.
• TheProkrammer 17y ago
  No workie on Chrome and IE.
  • andrewljohnson 17y ago
    Public, covert racism?
    • gregmalcolm 17y ago
      Huh? And for the record, chrome and ie no worky for me either. Firefox does though.
      • andrewljohnson 17y ago
        When you say no workie or no worky, what accent are you mimicking?
        • DougBTX 17y ago
          A little kid's? Don't know what you are talking about, and a quick google gives no relevant results. Perhaps old meanings die quietly over time? Also, this thread is the top google reference for "no workie" racism, doesn't look like there is much keyword competition.
  • bprater 17y ago
    Tommy Boy reference, I'm guessing.