[DNSOP] Re: [Ext] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Call for Adoption: draft-davies-internal-tld

[Philip Homburg <[e-mail]>]

>> Can you explain how this is relevant to the .internal discussion
>> which is specifically reserved to be used in DNS?
>
>Within the context of .internal, I would like to remark browsers' role in this
> 
>for internal domain names (currently e.g. .lan in my networks). So the web 
>browser has an omnibar, right. And depending on what you put into it, the 
>browser needs to decide whether it should execute a DNS lookup and HTTP 
>request, or treat it as a search query. For domains on .lan, it always seems 
>to need a trailing /, most of the time not even . apex cuts it here. Which is 
>annoying.

This is getting off topic because how an 'omnibar' works is not part of this
working group. But it does raise the question, do browsers react differently
depending on whether a name is present in the root or not?

If I type foo.internal in a web browser does it react differently from, say,
foo.amsterdam.

I tried for my browser (Firefox) and got the same result. But maybe other 
browsers different.