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Like .ai, the new "hot" ccTLD.

CydeWeys 9y ago
We just used ai.google instead of google.ai as the canonical domain name for Google's AI initiative for precisely this reason. (We run .google and you can see the source code at https://nomulus.foo https://nomulus.foo )
- rmwaite 9y ago
  Hey, when are you guys gonna open .meme? Asking for a friend :-)
  - walrus01 9y ago
    https://dickbutt.meme https://dickbutt.meme ?
  - CydeWeys 9y ago
    I'd love to open it up tomorrow, but alas, I'm not the decision maker.
- walrus01 9y ago
  I just looked at the wikipedia page for the .ai ccTLD and registering something in Anguilla requires.... a fax machine? It's like time traveling to 1987.
  - stordoff 9y ago
    If I'm reading https://whois.ai/cgi-bin/register.py https://whois.ai/cgi-bin/register.py? correctly, I'm not sure it's strictly required - it might just delay our account by a month (it's not 100% clear IMO): > We will email you a password after which you need to login and pay the $100, unless you are resident in Anguilla. > After this we will send you a letter, fax and short text message (SMS) with codes on them. Please, be sure your information is correct so you can receive verifiaction codes. When you get these you need to login and enter them. > We will also wait 3 months to make sure there is no problem with your credit card. But each successfully verification will decrease this period by one month, so if you pass all of them you do not need to wait 3 month. Shame it's so arcane/expensive ($100 for account, then $100/2 years per domain) - there's a couple of joke domains I might have picked up if they were cheap enough (gomennas.ai / ebihara.ai [character from Persona4]). I do appreciate that the TLD alone resolves though: http://ai./ http://ai./
    - mindcrime 9y ago
      FWIW, 101 Domains allows you to register a .ai domain (I registered zuse.ai there) and you don't have to do anything with a fax, etc. Now, maybe 101 has to fax something to somebody in Anguilla, but as the end user, you're isolated from that. Unless things have changed since I registered my domain.
- vincentmarle 9y ago
  Any ETA on .app?
- Mithorium 9y ago
  How about setting MX records for .google so you can have name@google emails
  - brongondwana 9y ago
    There's far too much software that won't accept that, sadly.
  - CydeWeys 9y ago
    We also have .gmail, so you can imagine some clever possibilities with that. God knows how widely a "ben@google" email address would work though. I'm going to guess not very.
    - Mithorium 9y ago
      True, I imagine a lot of software wouldn't know how to handle an email without a dot in the domain part That and apparently ICANN would frown upon such an implementation [1] [1] https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en
      - Endy 9y ago
        Wouldn't that work like the old Compuserve or Prodigy email addresses? And if it would, wouldn't most email clients have to have "back-compatibility" with it?

We just used ai.google instead of google.ai as the canonical domain name for Google's AI initiative for precisely this reason. (We run .google and you can see the source code at https://nomulus.foo https://nomulus.foo )

rmwaite 9y ago
Hey, when are you guys gonna open .meme? Asking for a friend :-)
- walrus01 9y ago
  https://dickbutt.meme https://dickbutt.meme ?
- CydeWeys 9y ago
  I'd love to open it up tomorrow, but alas, I'm not the decision maker.
walrus01 9y ago
I just looked at the wikipedia page for the .ai ccTLD and registering something in Anguilla requires.... a fax machine? It's like time traveling to 1987.
- stordoff 9y ago
  If I'm reading https://whois.ai/cgi-bin/register.py https://whois.ai/cgi-bin/register.py? correctly, I'm not sure it's strictly required - it might just delay our account by a month (it's not 100% clear IMO): > We will email you a password after which you need to login and pay the $100, unless you are resident in Anguilla. > After this we will send you a letter, fax and short text message (SMS) with codes on them. Please, be sure your information is correct so you can receive verifiaction codes. When you get these you need to login and enter them. > We will also wait 3 months to make sure there is no problem with your credit card. But each successfully verification will decrease this period by one month, so if you pass all of them you do not need to wait 3 month. Shame it's so arcane/expensive ($100 for account, then $100/2 years per domain) - there's a couple of joke domains I might have picked up if they were cheap enough (gomennas.ai / ebihara.ai [character from Persona4]). I do appreciate that the TLD alone resolves though: http://ai./ http://ai./
  - mindcrime 9y ago
    FWIW, 101 Domains allows you to register a .ai domain (I registered zuse.ai there) and you don't have to do anything with a fax, etc. Now, maybe 101 has to fax something to somebody in Anguilla, but as the end user, you're isolated from that. Unless things have changed since I registered my domain.
vincentmarle 9y ago
Any ETA on .app?
Mithorium 9y ago
How about setting MX records for .google so you can have name@google emails
- brongondwana 9y ago
  There's far too much software that won't accept that, sadly.
- CydeWeys 9y ago
  We also have .gmail, so you can imagine some clever possibilities with that. God knows how widely a "ben@google" email address would work though. I'm going to guess not very.
  - Mithorium 9y ago
    True, I imagine a lot of software wouldn't know how to handle an email without a dot in the domain part That and apparently ICANN would frown upon such an implementation [1] [1] https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en
    - Endy 9y ago
      Wouldn't that work like the old Compuserve or Prodigy email addresses? And if it would, wouldn't most email clients have to have "back-compatibility" with it?