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The trailing dot in domain names matter

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Re: The trailing dot in domain names matter

#7

This reminds me of how you can use different bases for urls. Take http://3520653007/item?id=41982974 or http://032166163317/item?id=41982974 for example

For anyone wondering, this is just the IP address written in a different form: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56814434

Re: The trailing dot in domain names matter

#8
post #5

This seems to be content marketing for their company.

I found it fascinating.

I also think it is interesting. I didn't want to dismiss it - content marketing can still contain valuable information, that's the whole point of it after all.

Re: The trailing dot in domain names matter

#10
This article, and the article linked upthread, is giving a novel definition of FQDN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_qualified_domain_name

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1594#section-5

The trailing dot (root zone) is implicit in a Fully Qualified Domain Name. The trailing dot is not what makes a domain name fully qualified.

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