Going to 3drealms.com in IE brings me to MSN Search

[Mike359]

See for yourself:

[Micki!]

Happened to me sometimes too...
Sometimes it accepts it without "www", and other times, it requires you to type that in...

[Joe Siegler]

Don't leave off the www and you'll be fine.

[Phait]

In most any browser you can just type in the domain without WWW and .COM and hold CTRL and tap ENTER - it'll put in the www. and .com for you.

So type in: 3drealms
Then: CTRL+ENTER

*SHIFT + ENTER = .net
*CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER = .org

*Firefox at least

[Micki!]

I didn't know that...
Thanks for telling Phait... :)

[Joe Siegler]

Actually, that's relatrively new behaviour in Firefox. It didn't always do that.

IE's done it for years. I missed that when I switched from IE to Firefox.

[jimbob]

you could also do a spyware check, many time at school i was redirected to some lame ass search site eventhough i correctly typed the url, with and without the http://www stuff.

a spyware check promptly fixed it.

might not be the real problem in this case, but do so anyway just to make sure ;) :)

[Oasiz]

Might be that you just have problems accessing the servers for some reason, (thus redirecting you to MSN search automatically instead of showing a 404). Its a "feature" of IE.