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Comment by wil421

2 days ago

Why does the url say one.one.one.one in my browser?

Because your are redirected to one.one.one.one via the location header and 301 status code from the ip address.

http://1.1.1.1 redirects to https://1.1.1.1 which then redirects to https://one.one.one.one

but the TLS cert on https://1.1.1.1 (or https://[2606:4700:4700::1111] on ipv6) is still valid for the ipaddress otherwise your browser would put up a warning during the tls handshake.

  • Its too bad it does the last redirect.

    • They didn’t used to. Guess they wanted to show off their shiny one.one domain.

      Also (and just speculating here), it could be they wanted to get away from promoting https://1.1.1.1 because of legacy spam filtering. But that’s just me thinking out loud as to why they would prefer the domain over the ip