Safari can no longer address .xxyyzz.lan hosts on the local domain.

My local network is set up as <host>.xxyyzz.lan and xxyyzz.lan is given through DHCP as the local domain. I have a local DNS containing the relevant entries.

The problem is that Safari no longer accepts either <host> or the full <host>.xxyyzz.lan. It just searches for <host> in google instead which is obviously broken.

This used to work in iOS 6 and I'm quite sure it worked in early iOS 7 versions aswell.

Any solutions?