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Internal sites require http:

I have setup an internal DNS with GlobalNames Zone. I have a DNS name pointing to an internal IP.

For example: education.domain.com points to 192.168.0.25

When I go to a web browser and type in http://education it will bring me to the website. What I would like is to be able not to type in the http://

So I just type in education and it auto fills to the IP address. This has been setup at another company I worked for but unsure how it was setup.
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Put an alias in your DNS for education that points to the same ip address as education.domain.com, 192.168.0.25
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Inside my GlobalNames I have already setup an Alias (CNAME) pointing to the IP address.
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@footech

I was afraid you were going to say that. I wasn't sure if it was a DNS issue or browser issue. I've been trying to search for it and am unable to find a solution thus far. The browsers we are using are:

IE 11
Firefox
Chrome

If I can get it to work on any of them I'd be happy. Probably IE 11 since its the most basic and then I can tell users to use IE 11 to use the shortcut search. But any help you or anyone else could provide in finding a solution would be great.
footech is correct, as usual :)

There are a couple of things that could cause this.  However I would start by looking at the registry entrys:  

LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\DefaultPrefix
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\Prefixes

*** BACKUP THE REGISTRY PRIOR TO MAKING CHANGES ***
sorry I duplicated the entry.  

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Nice.

Sorry I don't have time to look into the browsers behavior.