IOS 8 and iPhone 6 work with fresh TLDs

Fresh operating system (that comes pre-installed on iPhone 6) makes it easier to access websites using fresh top level domains.

One of the big challenges with fresh top level domain names is getting them to work with various devices and software programs.

This took a big leap forward on the mobile side with Apple’s release of iOS 8 this stretch.

Ahead of, it wasn’t always easy to get a fresh TLD to work on an iPhone. You had to type in http:// most of the time for it to be recognized as a web address. That’s why Uniregistry put http:// on a bus advertisement. (I doubt that was effective; I can’t imagine someone actually typing this prefix in on their mobile phone!)

uniregistry bus

iOS 8 appears to full support fresh TLDs, at least the Latin character ones.

My fresh iPhone easily resolved fresh TLDs, counting ones that just launched. I tried the same names on my iPad using iOS 7 and they still went to a search page. The domains worked following upgrading the iPad to iOS 8.

With millions of fresh iPhones shipping with iOS 8 (and many other phone owners upgrading to it), this is a big leap for fresh TLDs.

That stated, there’s a long way to go. Many Android phones won’t work with fresh TLDs, and that states nothing of various software program incompatibilities. Internationalized domain names have an even longer road ahead.

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