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Tell HN: .guru domains don't work on iOS Safari. Is the TLD system broken?

9 pointsandrewstuart16 comments

If you are using Safari on iOS then when you visit a .guru domain you will be sent to Google instead of the target domain.

Try visiting these Apple owned .guru domains from Safari on iOS:

apple.guru iphone.guru ipad.guru mac.guru

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You might have to type http:// in front, but those domains you listed may not have been set up with a www server? Mobile safari works fine to open for example http://nic.guru/

It doesn't seem very practical to expect new user to have to type in http://

Do people still type in full web addresses starting with http? I thought that ended years ago when browser started to be smarter.

If typing http:// before the url works, then obviously the TLD system isn't broken. It's unclear that anything is broken, but if it's anything, it would be the browser, not the domain system. The browser isn't treating the url as a url.

Now this is the reason Mozilla built the Public Suffix List. https://publicsuffix.org/list/

That's much more likely to be a specific DNS-server error. Try swapping out the DNS servers for one that's known to already work with the .guru TLD like Google's public DNS servers.

(8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4)

I don't think this is specific to iOS, I can't access "apple.guru" in opera on os x.

I wonder what other TLDs are broken on Opera and Safari? A broken domain name system is a fairly big issue isn't it? How come Icann is taking our money for TLDs that don't work?

Nothing is broken, those don't work because the domains point nowhere. You'll notice that donuts.guru works, for example.

Edit: I was wrong.

Not in Safari in iOS it doesn't. Just put in donuts.guru on its own and it goes to Google.

Seems like it only breaks on iOS 7. Works on 6 and 8.

I doubt Safari would be foolish enough to not just redirect to google based on your DNS server telling them the domain does not exist. That would mean locally configured domains wouldn't work.

Check your DNS settings please, before making these kinds of statements.

Obligatory post to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

test.guru worked in yosemite Safari without http:// Anyone install iOS 8 yet? Oh wait.. did I just break NDA... ooooops.

There doesn't seem to be a problem in Safari OSX, even with older versions.

iOS just knows .guru is a stupid TLD and acts appropriately.

lol iOS rebelling against its maker. apple.guru

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