Dear Safari, I will never ever want to connect to www.10.0.0.232.
@paul are subdomains for bare IPs even a thing?

@cinebox @paul I'm pretty sure they're not. This would require DNS lookups where the TLD consists entirely of numbers, which a) would create ambiguity between IPs and domain names, and b) the ICANN is not allowing for registration. For ASCII gTLDs, they will only allow 3-63 characters, with only the characters a-z. And non-ASCII TLDs are encoded with a prefix of "xn--", so you couldn't match IPs with that either. (See section 2.2.1 here: https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/guidebook-full-04jun12-en.pdf)

A lot of software does a lot of bad and wrong guessing on whether something could be a TLD or not, but if it consists of all numbers, it's actually safe to say that it's not a domain name. Safari is just bad.

@siguza @paul after the .zip thing Im not sure I would even be surprised by a .1 tld

@cinebox @paul just you wait for .exe and .pdf. If they hand out .1 though, then I want .0!

But yeah, I think at least on the 3-character minimum they're not budging. 2-char domains are reserved for countries, and while I think they could do single-char domains... idk. Maybe they could be convinced to allow all-digit TLDs if they have 3 or more characters and have a numerical value >255. Now THAT would be fun! I could register those IPs you always see in movies like 355.489.292.881 :D

@cinebox @paul
you can add it to /etc/hosts 😂
@paul Just admit defeat, and add it to your /etc/hosts file
@paul You’ll connect where I want you to connect and YOU’LL LIKE IT! --love, Safari
@schmegs @paul [Tim Cook Voice] It is our mission to bring to users the features they didn't know they wanted!

@paul and Android's keyboard. No one will ever say o k a y i n g

I'm not even going to put the letters together to give it any ideas

@paul LMAO I can relate with this.
@paul I was googling a specific zip file last night and it was taking me to www.cdimono1.zip
@paul I think this quote by Steve Jobs embodies what they’re getting at: “A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.”
@paul announcing the next great tld: .0.1
@paul ugh, yeah… Any idea when it started doing that? Hadn't noticed until a few months ago
@paul oh yes I also always hate that. Do I change the url a little and then it always adds “www.” Before of it
@paul i love that web site
@paul Also if I want http, I want http, not https. Especially if the site doesn’t work under latter