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I just tried this on Safari on my phone - I was sent to Realtor.com as well. I tried it a few times and was redirected each time, even though I typed "realty.com" in the URL bar (and it didn't auto-correct before I hit "Go").

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Wow. I'd be livid if I were this guy. That's an expensive domain. Even if it's in the history, the browser shouldn't be guessing at what to do when it gets exact instructions.

I typed in realty.com and went straight to realty.com. iPhone 11 running iOS 13.5.1. I can’t reproduce any of these behaviors.

Edit: I have “Suggestions in Search” turned off, maybe that’s it?

Of course that’s it!

But it's working fine for me. On iPhone 11 with the latest version of iOS.

Are you in the US? Suggestions are locale specific.

Me, too. Absolutely should not happen. Will give the benefit of the doubt that it's a glitch. Still unacceptable, certainly for a .com.

This is also happening on my Macbook's Safari

It doesn’t work for me. I wonder if it’s location related? I’m in spain if it makes any difference.

Is your phone in English? That seems more likely to be related.

My phone is in English, but I didn’t get the redirect. I’m in Canada.

Didn't happen for me either in Germany (despite English iOS). May be US-specific?

Any chance you were using private browsing?

When I enable private browsing, Safari correctly takes me to realty.com

When I disable private browsing, Safari takes me to realtor.com

I am in the US

iPhone 11 on the iOS 14 beta and it takes me to realty.com as desired. Wonder if it's just inconsistency or something that has been fixed.

I just tried and I went to realty.com. I’m Danish but I set the keyboard to English and it still sent me to realty.com.

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