Issue 121882 in chromium: Short Domains redirecting to Search

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Status: Unconfirmed
Owner: ----
Labels: OS-Mac Area-Undefined Pri-2 Type-Bug

New issue 121882 by m...@mattclements.co.uk: Short Domains redirecting to
Search
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=121882

Chrome Version : 18.0.1025.142
OS Version: OS X 10.7.3
URLs (if applicable) : gov.uk

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Visit "gov.uk" in the address bar (without the quotes)

What is the expected result?
Opens the New UK Government Beta Site

What happens instead?
Opens a Google Search for gov.uk

UserAgentString: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3)
AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.142 Safari/535.19

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #2 on issue 121882 by m...@mattclements.co.uk: Short Domains

redirecting to Search
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=121882

Also reproducible in Version 20.0.1091.0 canary for OSX

Same with Did you mean to go to http://gov.uk - again, not a massive bug,
but this site will be the UK Government site with probably millions of hits
per day.