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www.google.com./

Notice, that is DOT com DOT slash.

         

pendanticist

2:36 pm on Jan 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

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195.7.0.** - - [21/Jan/2004:03:32:38 -0800] "GET /Blah_Blah.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12012 "http://www.google.com./" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)"

This visitor came to me overnight. Since the URL eventually takes you to the standard Google, it seemed legit. When I saw he/she was from Bucharest....

I know I have not been awake very long this morning, but I can say I've NOT seen this DOTcomDOTSlash before.

Is this a case of redirecting mis-typed urls? If you paste the link you'll see the DOT Slash goes away if you click thru.

sidyadav

2:50 pm on Jan 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Is this a case of redirecting mis-typed urls? If you paste the link you'll see the DOT Slash goes away if you click thru.

lol, that doesn't happen in Netscape though - When I go to [google.com....] , the URL remains the same in the Adress Bar, displaying [google.com...] .

Sid

pendanticist

3:06 pm on Jan 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

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If you paste the link you'll see the DOT Slash goes away if you click thru.

I'm looking at the DOTcomDOTslash site in NS7.1 right now and when I hover over all the links, ONLY one does NOT have the DOTcomDOTslash. Even at that, it shows www.google.com/ncr where ncr disappears once you've reached Google.com .

http://www.google.com./help/features.html#maps

Hmmmm....

sidyadav

3:25 pm on Jan 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

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If you paste the link you'll see the DOT Slash goes away if you click thru.

ahhh, ok. sorry, misread your post..

It does seem a little strange though, never heard of dotcomdotslash domain syntaxes before.

Sid

stevedob

4:31 pm on Jan 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Each part of a domain name is correctly terminated with the <dot> and, although you don't often see it used within the context of a browser, it is not incorrect to do so.

IanTurner

4:36 pm on Jan 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

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the .com./ site is different to the standard .com - note the English under the Google logo which doesn't appear on .com/

nakulgoyal

1:46 am on Jan 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Yes, appears to be different. How is this setup?