Domain name without TLD

I typed securedrop into the Chrome address bar and pressed enter. In addition to querying Google as usual, Chrome showed me this:

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Clicking that link () took me to a parked domain page. I checked if securedrop might be a new TLD, but it's not in the IANA list.

What's going on here?

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The culprit was the DNS server. This happened when I was browsing through a SOCKS proxy via a server hosted at Digital Ocean. If I turn off the proxy server, this problem disappears.

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