Help android not recognizing modern web extensions

[Android Question]

I recently setup a new website for my business. www.studioxero.photography .. when attempting to check it out on my phone, a samsung note2 (sgh-t889) running 4.3, I had a hard time getting the browser to go directly to the website. it instead attempted to search google unless I typed out the full http://www....etc

The texting app also won't recognize "http://www.studioxero.photography" and make it a clickable link, it just appears as text so a recipient would have to copy/paste to use it.

 

[Hadron]

Just to be sure, you realise this is a peer support forum and not affiliated to Google, Samsung etc, so any complaints or suggestions should be directed to them.

Anyway I just typed the URL without any http prefix into 3 browsers on my phone (Firefox, NB Pro and Ghostery) and all 3 went straight to the site. Similarly I texted the url (including prefix) to myself and all 3 message apps on my phone (Chomp, Textra and the native HTC Message app) treated it as a clickable link.

So the only conclusion I can draw is that it's a problem with the specific apps on your phone rather than a general Android problem. Manufactures usually replace the browser and message apps with their own versions, so if you are using the stock apps it's Samsung who are responsible for these. It might be that there is some setting in the browser that could modify that behaviour, but as I've never owned a Samsung I can't say for sure.

 

[mikedt]

The older Jellybean 4.3 stock Samsung SMS app in the Note 2 isn't automatically recognizing new TLDs, like ".photography" as being a URL, unless they're prefixed with "http://" ...only fix for that is to use a more recent third-party SMS app, or see if there's a firmware update for the phone.

AF itself running on Xenforo can be similar with TLDs, recognizing and converting them into clickable URLs...
oppo.com
oppo.cn
Same website.

".com", no problems, ".cn", which is the TLD for China isn't recognized as a TLD by Xenforo.

FWIW I think China Unicom's DNS has difficulty with new TLDs like ".photography" as well, it's failing to find the OP's website. Not using a VPN at the moment.

The original TLDs of, .com, .net, .org, .gov, etc. no problems of course.

Modern web things like, new TLDs might be slow to be recognized and gain acceptance, because obviously things do need to be updated to correctly deal with them. There's also non-latin character URLs, like Arabic or Chinese, just starting to be used as well occasionally.