Tell PG/HN: HN bug re links to top level domains

by mooism2 • 15 years ago

3 6 15 years ago

dsl• 15 years ago

I'm not sure what you think the bug is... the link associated with the story is not valid, so HN links to the comments page instead.

Would you rather people ended up on an error page?

mooism23• 15 years ago

The link is valid. I clicked on it, it resolved, redirected me to a .com address, worked perfectly. (But was spam.)

0x0• 15 years ago

Must be your browser doing some autocorrection then.

  % host coffeemakerspot. 8.8.8.8
  Using domain server:
  Name: 8.8.8.8
  Address: 8.8.8.8#53
  Aliases: 
  
  Host coffeemakerspot. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

mooism23• 15 years ago

Oh.

The link is to http://coffeemakerspot/

I was redirected to http://coffeemakerspot.com/

But the redirection was done by my browser (Firefox). I had assumed that coffeemakerspot was resolving in its own right.

Either HN shouldn't accept the link, or it should show the domain name it putatively links to. As it is, it displays as if the link is to the comments page, but it is actually to the external url.

frou_dh• 15 years ago

Think a bit. If unadorned custom TLDs were valid, the ownership and benefit of them would have been a huge topic on all our minds for years.

Tell PG/HN: HN bug re links to top level domains

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