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For brevity and wit, the most impressive email address I ever saw was up@3.am - and the most impressive website was http://ws./ http://ws./ Sadly, ws. is not s

For brevity and wit, the most impressive email address I ever saw was up@3.am - and the most impressive website was http://ws./ http://ws./ Sadly, ws. is not serving right now it seems - I had no idea root ccTLDs could vend an A record but there you go; I guess technically that means the root servers themselves could vend A records, which would let you have the ultimate website at http://./ http://./

macintux 6y ago
A friend of mine, Garrett Smith, has g@rre.tt, which always impressed me. I’m still waiting for someone to launch a .ux domain so I can grab macint.ux
- chrismorgan 6y ago
  Two letter TLDs are reserved for country codes (ccTLD), so barring policy change and ignoring minor subtleties in the actual rules, .ux will only happen if a new country comes around and gets assigned the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code “ux”. A more probable course of events would be “tux” being registered as a new gTLD.
  - dweekly 6y ago
    Well, for the low low price of $185k and a bunch of paperwork you could be the proud new owner of .tux: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/guidebook-full-04jun12-en.pdf https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/guidebook-full-... As it looks like that TLD is not currently issued: https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
    - macintux 6y ago
      I oft rue my failure to be vastly wealthy.
judge2020 6y ago
http://ai./ http://ai./ as well
jcrawfordor 6y ago
Top-level domains or "dotless domains" are generally prohibited from resolving. SAC-053 explains why: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-053-en.pdf https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-053-en.pdf There are, of course, exceptions---the policy was put in place after the creation of ccTLDs and does not apply to them, so a few ccTLDs get to break the rule.

macintux 6y ago

A friend of mine, Garrett Smith, has g@rre.tt, which always impressed me. I’m still waiting for someone to launch a .ux domain so I can grab macint.ux

chrismorgan 6y ago
Two letter TLDs are reserved for country codes (ccTLD), so barring policy change and ignoring minor subtleties in the actual rules, .ux will only happen if a new country comes around and gets assigned the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code “ux”. A more probable course of events would be “tux” being registered as a new gTLD.
- dweekly 6y ago
  Well, for the low low price of $185k and a bunch of paperwork you could be the proud new owner of .tux: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/guidebook-full-04jun12-en.pdf https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/guidebook-full-... As it looks like that TLD is not currently issued: https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
  - macintux 6y ago
    I oft rue my failure to be vastly wealthy.

judge2020 6y ago

http://ai./ http://ai./ as well

jcrawfordor 6y ago

Top-level domains or "dotless domains" are generally prohibited from resolving. SAC-053 explains why: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-053-en.pdf https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-053-en.pdf There are, of course, exceptions---the policy was put in place after the creation of ccTLDs and does not apply to them, so a few ccTLDs get to break the rule.