On 7/14/2013 9:53 AM, Yoav Nir wrote:
On Jul 14, 2013, at 4:34 PM, Hector Santos <hsantos(_at_)isdg(_dot_)net> wrote:
On 7/13/2013 2:20 PM, Yoav Nir wrote:
So finding your site is not that difficult for first-timers. But regardless, 
the people who type in addresses or DNS names in full are rare and far between.
Agreed. Just to see again, I tried it on my wife's new computer with Chrome and 
it showed:
    Windows Server on aws.amazon.com
    Windows Server 2012 at microsoft.com
    www.winserver.com
Am I off-base to suggest that the IETF can address this "dotless" domain 
searching confusion with a INFO or BCP suggesting software *should* consider DNS solution 
first over non-DNS solutions?
SM is way ahead of you :-) :
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-moonesamy-dotless-domains-00
Good show SM.
I have a very popular 5-6 years old resource web page related to using 
jQuery-based Auto-Suggestion methods with source.  It uses a DOMAIN 
query for an example for the auto-suggestion.   You can see how easy it 
is to just use an NON-DNS database solution.   A DNS-solution would have 
a higher overhead with this full duplex concept.
http://beta.winserver.com/public/test/MultiSuggestTest.wct
Whats funny, is that as I type Winserver here, it also pulls the dotless 
domain.   This data source was a collection of "Bad domains" as rejected 
and collected by our SMTP server!  So at some point, a dotless winserver 
was used and rejected by our SMTP server.
This illustrates a good part of the issue, from how SMTP currently 
behaves and also from the user standpoint, the searching may pull the 
dotless domain first.
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HLS