I believe a public url requires a . and something after it, such as com, biz, info, etc. But you can check for yourself. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt


>my-server is a valid URL within my local network.
>There is no reason to not allow a TLD.
>It might be unusal, but those days everybody can create a own TLD, and there is no restriction to use it plain.
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>just my EUR 0,02