Google Chrome Fixes the Root Server Bug

The bug was that DNS entry. If what if we did not find an IP address for marketing? What does the DNS actually return? It would return just domain not found, right? But remember, the DNS is recursive. So Google Chrome just did us the root servers of the Internet for four years. Just because of the stinking omnibox user experience. And of course, they fixed the bug and you can see it in the graph.

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