Domains resolving

[doodlebug]

Hope that's an appropiate title ?

Ok, most of know that usaully you can enter a URL without www. and it will resolve but today on telly i saw a website advertising, the domain name was 3 words long and being shown on the screen with spaces inbetween the 3 words, the first i've ever seen.

Anyway, i put in into my address bar with spaces as shown just to test it, all i get is Google search result saying " did you mean " followed by the domain name. Obviously didn't resolve.

Q1 : is it possible to do this, have a site where you enter it in to the address bar with spaces and it resolves

I think this would be good if possible because then companies could advertise with spaces and not have to mess around with hyphens and taking 3 word domains and putting each word in a different colour etc.

Q2 : how would this be on the DNS ?

Many Thanks Andy

 

[The Ferryman]

No, you can't have spaces anywhere in a url

Regards

Bruce

 

[doodlebug]

Just wondered if it would be possible to change DNS to understand this ?

If not then a bit silly advertising on national tv with spaces in the domain.

Not good marketing then :-|

Thanks

 

[bensd]

It's not about the DNS, it normally depends on the browser.

I have pressed enter/go with spaces in the url before and i get taken to the site, othertimes you end up at a search page.

 

[ratboy]

The do it do daft people can see the individual words in a domain... Buy a nice generic in the first place and you wouldn't have an issue.

Noticed alot of companies now doing the "search for..." bla bla instead of a URL especially TV companies where there sites are large.

 

[grantw]

Noticed alot of companies now doing the "search for..." bla bla instead of a URL especially TV companies where there sites are large.

Indeed, I saw a couple of tv ads the other day that said that.

Grant

 

[doodlebug]

It's not about the DNS, it normally depends on the browser.

I have pressed enter/go with spaces in the url before and i get taken to the site, othertimes you end up at a search page.

Thanks Ben, so it's a browser issue.

Noticed alot of companies now doing the "search for..." bla bla instead of a URL especially TV companies where there sites are large.

I've noticed that aswell, so now they waste money, eg, user searches for Tescos and on top of the results page is a sponsored link to Tesco,co,uk

They're bound to click on it :-|

 

[Skinner]

On my business cards and stationary I put capital letters to separate words like

AcornDomains.co.uk, sometimes I do AcornDomains.co.uk, and I always have the headline Acorn Domain as well for example.

You can have spaces after the .ext and before main domain, if you setup wildcard dns on the sub domain you can have acorn domains.acorndomains.co.uk, your browser will url_encode the the spaces, so they don't stay looking like spaces. You can also have acorndomains.co.uk/acorn domains/ and again it gets url encoded.

However the actual domainname, you can't have any spaces in them, because every character is treated as unique.

 

[doodlebug]

Ok, Thanks Skinner : some companies do some silly things but then if businesses were wise, we wouldn't all still be trying to sell keyword generic domains :sad: