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    From Bruce@07.013@scorecrow.com to uk.comp.sys.mac on Fri Oct 24 23:56:19 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.comp.sys.mac

    There's a webforum that I go to regularly - "forums.example.com" - but
    there's also the main site at "example.com".

    Since MacOS26, whenever I type "example.com" into the address bar,
    Safari "helpfully" goes to "forum.example.com" instead. And no amount of re-entering the address, cancelling auto-complete etc makes any difference.

    I've literally had to use "www.example.com" instead to break the
    deadlock and get to where I want to go.

    Suggestion to Apple: occasionally the user may actually know what they
    want to do.
    --
    Bruce Horrocks
    Hampshire, England

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  • From David B.@BD@hotmail.co.uk to uk.comp.sys.mac on Sat Oct 25 07:54:54 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.comp.sys.mac

    On 24/10/2025 23:56, Bruce wrote:
    There's a webforum that I go to regularly - "forums.example.com" - but there's also the main site at "example.com".

    Since MacOS26, whenever I type "example.com" into the address bar,
    Safari "helpfully" goes to "forum.example.com" instead. And no amount of re-entering the address, cancelling auto-complete etc makes any difference.

    I've literally had to use "www.example.com" instead to break the
    deadlock and get to where I want to go.

    Suggestion to Apple: occasionally the user may actually know what they
    want to do.

    I quote:-

    Example Domains

    As described in RFC 2606 and RFC 6761, a number of domains such as
    example.com and example.org are maintained for documentation purposes.
    These domains may be used as illustrative examples in documents without
    prior coordination with us. They are not available for registration or transfer.

    We provide a web service on the example domain hosts to provide basic information on the purpose of the domain. These web services are
    provided as best effort, but are not designed to support production applications. While incidental traffic for incorrectly configured
    applications is expected, please do not design applications that require
    the example domains to have operating HTTP service.

    https://www.iana.org/help/example-domains



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  • From Chris@ithinkiam@gmail.com to uk.comp.sys.mac on Sat Oct 25 20:38:49 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.comp.sys.mac

    Bruce <07.013@scorecrow.com> wrote:
    There's a webforum that I go to regularly - "forums.example.com" - but there's also the main site at "example.com".

    Since MacOS26, whenever I type "example.com" into the address bar,
    Safari "helpfully" goes to "forum.example.com" instead. And no amount of re-entering the address, cancelling auto-complete etc makes any difference.

    I've literally had to use "www.example.com" instead to break the
    deadlock and get to where I want to go.

    Suggestion to Apple: occasionally the user may actually know what they
    want to do.

    Don't be so silly.

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