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		marksomnian on July 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs I believe http://go isn’t special cased, but instead (ab)uses DNS search domains - the server is actually something like go.corp.google.com, and all Google PCs are configured to use corp.google.com as a search domain

Animats on July 7, 2024 [–]

That's normal DNS behavior. If your machine is foo15241.corp.google.com, and you ask DNS for "go", you are supposed to get "go.corp.google.com".

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