Matthew Petach (mpetach) writes:
That was amusing. Firefox very handily took me to a search results page listing results for the word "museum", none of which was the actual page in question.
... and Safari took me to www.museum.com.
Thanks for all the pointers! I guess I won't be suggesting the use of such TLDs as gmail and ymail as a way to shorten up email addresses for people, given the inconsistent behaviour of client resolvers. ^_^;
This is not only about client resolvers, it's equally about the individual applications and their choice of how to handle a single-label domain name, or just domain names (FQDN or not) in particular. Most often you'll see that the regular expressions used to parse what is considered to be a valid domain -- or even the policy that decides whether a given name has a special meaning or not -- will vary wildly. Most of them are wrong, or don't do the expected thing.