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KillerGremal's point about search may be the key. A lot of the browsers these days use their favored search engine to go to a site, instead of just using the url directly. For example, I found that Safari on an iPad couldn't connect to certain secure sites, because they were excluded from search engines, and being Apple, it wouldn't let me override that behavior.

I think they do that to be helpful if you made a typo, as the search engines will try similar spellings, but sometimes they just make it worse.