On 7/14/2013 9:53 AM, Yoav Nir wrote:
On Jul 14, 2013, at 4:34 PM, Hector Santos <hsantos@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7/13/2013 2:20 PM, Yoav Nir wrote:
So finding your site is not that difficult for first-timers. But regardless, the people who type in addresses or DNS names in full are rare and far between.
Agreed. Just to see again, I tried it on my wife's new computer with Chrome and it showed:
Windows Server on aws.amazon.com
Windows Server 2012 at microsoft.com
www.winserver.com
Am I off-base to suggest that the IETF can address this "dotless" domain searching confusion with a INFO or BCP suggesting software *should* consider DNS solution first over non-DNS solutions?
SM is way ahead of you :-) :
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-moonesamy-dotless-domains-00
Good show SM.
I have a very popular 5-6 years old resource web page related to using
jQuery-based Auto-Suggestion methods with source. It uses a DOMAIN
query for an example for the auto-suggestion. You can see how easy it
is to just use an NON-DNS database solution. A DNS-solution would have
a higher overhead with this full duplex concept.
http://beta.winserver.com/public/test/MultiSuggestTest.wct
Whats funny, is that as I type Winserver here, it also pulls the dotless
domain. This data source was a collection of "Bad domains" as rejected
and collected by our SMTP server! So at some point, a dotless winserver
was used and rejected by our SMTP server.
This illustrates a good part of the issue, from how SMTP currently
behaves and also from the user standpoint, the searching may pull the
dotless domain first.
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HLS