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I am eager to know why localhost.com (without www) redirects to google.com. I also noticed that www.localhost.com gives a 404 page not found. I checked this in Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer all does the same. I checked the domain name records and it shows it belongs to Tucows and I am pretty sure Google doesn't own it and I know we can use http redirect to change it to a www or non-www version as the site owner wishes.
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localhost.com is a website. It does not point to your local IP, instead it most likely has an A record pointing to Google's IP.
Go to Chrome setting > Privacy and Settings > See all the cookies and site data, search for localhost and delete it. Then refresh your site it will be working.
Interesting answer posted by Ken Watford, Google employee: http://www.quora.com/Why-does-http-localhost-com-redirect-to-Google
He claims someone bought the domain when the web was still young and kept it ever since, but he does not say who.
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