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by weird-eye-issue 429 days ago
That is cursed
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sph 429 days ago
It is not, it is for your local resolver to distinguish a top-level domain from a subdomain (i.e. `foo` gets rewritten to `foo.mydomain.com` or `foo.local`)

man resolv.conf, read up on search domains and the ndots option

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Natfan 429 days ago
You're currently browsing `news.ycombinator.com.`[0].

[0]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/09/12/why-do-domain-names-end-with...

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