----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Vixie" <vi...@isc.org>
> Adam Atkinson <gh...@mistral.co.uk> writes: > > It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown > > http://dk, the home page of Denmark, some time in the mid 90s. > > > > Must I be recalling incorrectly? > > no you need not must be. it would work as long as no dk.this or dk.that > would be found first in a search list containing 'this' and 'that', where > the default search list is normally the parent domain name of your own > hostname (so for me on six.vix.com the search list would be vix.com and > so as long as dk.vix.com did not exist then http://dk/ would reach "dk.") And in fact, it works right now; I clicked through to it from your email, and it's a redirect to their NIC. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274