[1] For this purpose, the local domain name functions as a single-item search list.
[4] As a workaround for previous versions, many network administrators use Group Policy Objects to set the domain search list for Windows machines.
[6][7] In CentOS Linux search domain can be defined by editing the ifcfg file corresponding to the network.
[9] For example, if the domain search list contains "wikipedia.org", typing "en" in the browser will direct the user to "en.wikipedia.org".
Some ISPs add their own search domains via DHCP settings, similar to how they add DNS servers and other networking information; if this is undesired, the user can change this setting to ".internal"[10] or a Top level domain.