everyone and their brother may already know this shortcut, but for those of you who don’t..
when you type a domain name into your browser address bar, there’s a shortcut which allows you to skip typing in www or even the .com / .net / or .org extension..
check it out..
type a word into the address bar, then hold down the Ctrl button and press enter…voila, the http://www and .com are magically appended…
now, type a word and hold down the Shift button and press enter … voila, the .net extension is appended..
if you hold down Ctrl+Shift and press enter, the .org extension gets added..
I was aware of the .com shortcut years ago, and sortof forgot it. As I was researching some names this past week, I found myself heavily leaning on it, and man it saved me about an hour over the course of the day..
**UPDATE**
Looks like the Cntrl+Enter works on both Firefox & IE
the Shift+Enter and Shift+Cntrl+Enter only seems to work on Firefox (what I’m using)
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when I tried it with ‘cookies’, it redirected to http://corsocookies.com/. Same when i typed ‘bras’, redirected to http://www.cku.com/index.cfm. Do you know why this would happen?
***Domainer’s Gazette***
- the owner of cookies.com is simply forwarding all type-in traffic to corsocookies.com.. same goes from bras.com. You can have this setting placed at your registrar, not a hard thing to do..
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Actually, this has been so since the Netscape days.
Wow.. Such a simple trick, but such a great time saver.
I only just heard about the ctrl-enter a couple of days ago. And I’ve been using all flavors of web browsers for years. Safari for windows doesn’t work, but than again, it kind of has the finishing url part build in.