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This makes me wonder what if there are new ways to consider the question of "What is the shortest possible domain name?". An amusing approach is the one taken

This makes me wonder what if there are new ways to consider the question of "What is the shortest possible domain name?". An amusing approach is the one taken here: https://www.namepros.com/threads/worlds-shortest-domain-name.1061981/ https://www.namepros.com/threads/worlds-shortest-domain-name... leading to the domain used for this URL shortener: https://l.tl/ https://l.tl/ However, the ccTLD for São Tomé and Príncipe allows single-letter second-level domains, so perhaps this is a contender: l.ﬅ

kmm 8y ago
A few TLDs have A records, like ai. or dk. http://ai http://ai. http://dk http://dk.
- hultner 8y ago
  How come, they don't seem to resolve to anything? I tried both via my browser and curl. I can see the records and if i curl the ip-address for the dk-records I only get a nginx 301 redirect loop to the http-s version which serves a certificate for https://eksempel.dk https://eksempel.dk. Similar exprience with ai, curling the ip seems to point to a http://offshore.ai http://offshore.ai page. Is the top level A-records used for some other protocol? Do they server any purpose?
  - foepys 8y ago
    I tried both in Chrome in Android and they are working fine for me.
  - merb 8y ago
    you need to add the dot at the end. (for your browser)
- captn3m0 8y ago
  I run a scan on these once every few months : https://captnemo.in/blog/2018/06/02/google-tld-no-more-a-records/ https://captnemo.in/blog/2018/06/02/google-tld-no-more-a-rec...