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by rachelbythebay 5122 days ago
Try entering "ac" or "ac." in your browser. It's a TLD with an A record, so it should just work.

If you have a host on your domain also named that, well, things might get interesting depending on how your resolvers work (domains, search order, dotting, whatever). Plus, if you're in a corporate environment or something else with a proxy, add all of those demons, too.

Buckle up.

(Random trivia: I checked all 676 two-letter possibilities, and these are the ones which should work: AC AI CM DK GG IO JE KH PN SH TK TM TO UZ VI WS)

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Browsers assume you want to search for 'ac', you need to put http://ac explicitly. I wonder if they'll change that behavior now.
That ("fixup") and the other leak-to-Google stuff ("keywords") are probably the first two things I turn off when I start using a browser. I had too many mispastes turn into potential data leaks before figuring that out.