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.ai is run manually by a hard working bloke in Anguila, ironic.
by villgax 7y ago
.ai is run manually by a hard working bloke in Anguila, ironic.
- brennebeck 7y agoThat sounds interesting. Do you have a link? I didn’t see anything relevant on google.
- ChrisGranger 7y agohttp://www.ai/ http://www.ai/
- brennebeck 7y agoThank you. Not sure how I didn’t see that.
- ChrisGranger 7y agoI'm not sure if it works in all browsers, but for me at least, even http://ai http://ai is enough to reach the site.
- zamadatix 7y agoI had to go to http://ai http://ai. in chrome (note the "." for the root is at the end), "ai." will autoexpand. Interesting.
- OJFord 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fqdn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fqdn
- Xcelerate 7y agoWow, that’s crazy. "ai" by itself is sort of the ultimate domain name.
- Freak_NL 7y agoI'm sure admin@ai has a hell of a time getting his email address past naive form validation regexes.
- mrhappyunhappy 7y agoI’ve run into issues with sites failing to validate .io addresses.
- Cthulhu_ 7y agoIt should, it is a valid domain name after all. something.ai is a subdomain of the .ai domain.
- emilfihlman 7y agoInteresting, this used to work for me but it seems now that Chrome has went out of its way to break it because it still works in Curl. But wtf, Firefox redirects it to uniregistry.com :o
- windexh8er 7y ago> But wtf, Firefox redirects it to uniregistry.com :o Same thing on mobile, but it's taking you to `ai.com` first, and then redirects to Unregistry as it looks to be for sale. And as another commenter has stated `http://ai.` http://ai.` works as expected in FF.
- emilfihlman 7y agoBut is is ai taking me to ai.com? Why is firefox making that choice?
- pavlov 7y agoAnguilla is one of those places of tragic beauty: the vast beaches and easily traversed shallow terrain also mean the soil on the island is nearly useless for agriculture. For centuries it was a destitute backwater. It seems like poetic justice that the information age has randomly handed a valuable asset there.
- JasonFruit 7y agoI am missing the irony here. Help?
- jkaplowitz 7y agoThe domain that often represents artificial intelligence is run very manually by one human.
- JasonFruit 7y agoApparently I have none, artificial or otherwise. Thanks!
- AlbertoGP 7y agoAh, that guy! I learnt about Vince Cate from this old Japanese documentary, “Crypto Wars” from 1997: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcC0RNsallc&t=48m00s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcC0RNsallc&t=48m00s (In Japanese, enable subtitles with the [cc] button.) “At the end of February, hoping to escape the chaos of America’s cryptography regulations, developers from corporations representing the cryptography business have gathered in Anguilla, in the Caribbean Sea. The Financial Cryptography Conference. This island, which does not levy taxes on corporations is willing to lend a hand to the Cypherpunks and those companies in the cryptography business. The Cypherpunks that have already arrived greet Sameer and his friends. They’ve all been asked to come by Cypherpunks member Vince Cate, a resident of the island. Three years ago Vince left America’s west coast to move here, a place without any internet service. At that time he had a plan in mind. Anguilla is a small island with a population of only 9000. A tourism industry which depends on resort customers from America and the sale of commemorative stamps are Anguilla’s primary sources of income. However revenue from tourism is sluggish compared to other islands in the area. After arriving here the first thing Vince did was to preach to the Anguillan government about how wonderful the internet was. And in the end, even though the island was poor it was wired for the Internet.”