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Fun fact: just entering [ebay.co.jp] gives you a "Connection refused". You explicitly have to enter [www.ebay.co.jp]. I don't know what they're doing over there.

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Plenty of sites in asia expect the www. It's crazy annoying.

Pizzahut recently fixed theirs after years of bitching about it.

I had the same issue, I wanted to see the site everyone was talking about, if you append www. or https://www. in front of it, it works.

for future reference, prepend is the word you wanted.

"If you prepend www. or https://www. it works."

Ah yes, hadn't had my coffee yet. Prefix is the word I usually use more commonly instead, not sure if there's a huge difference between the two.

I think prepend makes more sense as a verb. Prefix is more commonly used as a noun

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