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How the heck is http://to./ a valid domain name?

http://to./ must be the shortest domain name I have ever seen. How can did they register a domain without an extension?

Community
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  • There's already a question on Serverfault and it really belongs there...but it will get closed as duplicate there...a moral conundrum... – Jason Punyon Dec 03 '09 at 21:32
  • duplicate: http://serverfault.com/questions/90737/how-the-heck-is-http-to-a-valid-domain-name – Tim Büthe Dec 03 '09 at 21:56

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They didn't, they have a top level domain (.to) - http://www.to/ is them (when entering http://to./your browser automatically inserted the www. part and the trailing . prevented your browser from adding .com

Barrett Jacobsen
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    -1 The browser doesn't insert anything. It send a DNS request for the domain "to", whick correspond to 216.74.32.103. – GetFree Dec 03 '09 at 22:30
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http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/to.html

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Perhaps you are mistaken?

$ whois to.

No whois server is known for this kind of object.

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