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Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

#21

I just tried this on Safari on my phone - I was sent to Realtor.com as well. I tried it a few times and was redirected each time, even though I typed "realty.com" in the URL bar (and it didn't auto-correct before I hit "Go").

Me, too. Absolutely should not happen. Will give the benefit of the doubt that it's a glitch. Still unacceptable, certainly for a .com.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

#22
File a bug report on https://webkit.org/reporting-bugs/. Unlike the apple bug reporter where it goes into an abyss and might be years before a resolution or even a reply, with the webkit reporting system I usually get a response from apple employees very quickly and majority of the items fixed in the next release or two.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

#23

This has been driving me mad for the better part of a year: the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. Last year it started picking words from your query and going through your history and using that to autocomplete so you'd always go to some random thing from your history that's barely relevant even for the most generic search terms (if I type "ptrace" I want to go to a web search, not some random Stack…

Why would you have history of what you searched 2 years ago? I automatically clear my history every day. It sounds like a privacy issue when someone gets your phone.

Maybe he never does anything on his work machine that would cause privacy concerns?

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

#25

I just tried this on Safari on my phone - I was sent to Realtor.com as well. I tried it a few times and was redirected each time, even though I typed "realty.com" in the URL bar (and it didn't auto-correct before I hit "Go").

Wow. I'd be livid if I were this guy. That's an expensive domain. Even if it's in the history, the browser shouldn't be guessing at what to do when it gets exact instructions.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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I would assume the store devices (Best Buy) are locked to a small set of domains for obvious reasons. Further it seems that it's adding an extra m on the end on all but the first. EDIT: LOL, -10 on this post. This place is such a swamp of imbeciles. Again, this is 100% a DNS issue, and note that the majority do not have this. Verizon or some other specific provider is blocking what they see, incorrectly, as typosquat…

I would assume you're being downvoted for making an incorrect assumption.
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