Take start.rental as an example, has a live server on the dot rental TLD, but 
no standard browser will resolve it, try it in Safari, you'll see..

Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone

> Op 3 jul. 2014 om 18:22 heeft Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> het volgende 
> geschreven:
> 
> 
>> On Jul 3, 2014, at 6:52 AM, Diederik Meijer | Ten Horses 
>> <diede...@tenhorses.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The issue being that the TLD (think for example: domain.law, with law being 
>> the TLD) is accessible through a DNS server, but since the TLD is not 
>> officially registered with ICANN, standard browsers do not resolve the 
>> domain into an IP address. Using a standard UIWebView does not work. But, I 
>> repeat, the server is up and running and the domain is accessible through 
>> the network.
> 
> Really? I’m not aware of anything built into browsers that restricts them to 
> a fixed set of “official” TLDs. As far as I know, the client simply hands off 
> _any_ hostname for DNS lookup, which will query the configured DNS server(s).
> 
> Are you 100% sure that the DNS is configured correctly? For example, the name 
> server (or some parent of it) needs to have a custom entry for “.law”, 
> otherwise it will end up querying upstream for it, and the upstream (ISP) 
> name servers won’t know about that TLD.
> 
> Also, are you 100% sure that the iOS device is configured to access the DNS 
> server that knows about your custom domain? It’s probably getting the name 
> server IP addresses via DHCP.
> 
> —Jens
> 
> PS: This question really belongs on the macnetworkprog mailing list. There 
> are Apple networking gurus hanging out there who don’t monitor cocoa-dev.
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