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Yes my point exactly. The trailing dot is absolute. Omission of the trailing dot however results in exactly what this thread is about, that some people can reach http://uz/ and other's can not.

This has more to do with the way you set up your network. The default action for a dotless domain should be to append a DNS suffix in relation to the local network. This can either be done by the OS or by an internal DNS server. When I type http://uz/ I get an error because the server uz.myhomenetwork.com is not a valid domain.

If however I type http://uz./ it directs me to the correct Russian site as the dot unambiguously directs the OS to look up the record without a DNS suffix.

This has nothing to do with Chrome.

This has more to do with the way you set up your network. The default action for a dotless domain should be to append a DNS suffix in relation to the local network. This can either be done by the OS or by an internal DNS server. When I type http://uz/ I get an error because the server uz.myhomenetwork.com is not a valid domain.

If however I type http://uz./ it directs me to the correct Russian site as the dot unambiguously directs the OS to look up the record without a DNS suffix.

This has nothing to do with Chrome.

E.g. http://uz
Will they have to disable it?

It actualy works for some TLDs:

http://ac./
http://ai./
http://dk./
http://io./
http://sh./
http://tm./
http://uz./
http://ws./

Why not just "google"? Like "uz": http://uz/

Here is a list of TLDs that work as web addresses: (be sure to enter them with http:/// and a dot at the end or your browser might not make it to the site, firefox for example will assume it is invalid and try adding a 'www.' and a '.com' unless i have already been to the page by explicitly adding a dot.)

http://ac./
http://ai./
http://bi./
http://cm./ (there is no http server running at the IP this resolves to)
http://dk./
http://gg./
http://hk./ (there is no http server running at the IP this resolves to)
http://io./
http://je./
http://ph./ (Here I get an ASP error, which looks to be part of an asp dispatched virtual hosting solution.)
http://pn./
http://pw./ (there is no http server running at the IP this resolves to)
http://sh./ (there is no http server running at the IP this resolves to)
http://tk./
http://to./ The shortest URL shortener in existence, having only 3 characters in the domain itself (and some browsers will work with only 2 of them)
http://uz./
http://wz./ (there is no http server running at the IP this resolves to)

So using top level domains as regular domains is very possible.