weird domain name...

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 4:10 pm

I've been playing with linux so figured I'd call it "mainserver" so to see if apache was running I typed it in the address bar: http://mainserver

But some company actually has that registered. Not sure how they managed to do that without using one of the root dns servers (.com, .net etc) but they did.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 9:38 pm

Strange indeed. When I went there, it brought up a class listing for SK.gnome.dwarf.main.MainServer. Methinks it's not as much a domain, but rather a browser keyword perhaps?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 9:41 pm

weird, since I can't access it anymore.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 10:43 pm

I noticed allot of others work too, but it seems to be intermittent. Maybe it's not real, but it's just some kind of caching issue on isps or something. Or maybe it works the same way as on a LAN, you just specify a computer name, and you can access it anywhere on the network, but it's not "registered" anywhere on the network.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:02 pm

I tried it again. I got the same site, apparently it's on sourceforge and has to do with an Open Source project called Galaxy Communicator. This time however, I noticed it was going through google, so I'm assuming that Firefox must simply be showing the first result from a google search for the term.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:06 pm

manadren wrote: I tried it again. I got the same site, apparently it's on sourceforge and has to do with an Open Source project called Galaxy Communicator. This time however, I noticed it was going through google, so I'm assuming that Firefox must simply be showing the first result from a google search for the term.

Yes, that's what Firefox does by default. When I enter those .com-less URLs (URIs, should I say?

), I get a Google search for the URL minus the http:// part. But that's because I changed a setting to make Google use search instead of I'm Feeling Lucky for the address bar...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:42 pm

Yeah and I think it could be that mozilla is adding .com by default. It does not work in IE.

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