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Then whats happening with the domain http://ai/ http://ai/ mentioned in another comment?

judge2020 5y ago
ai. is a ccTLD and there are far fewer regulations on them since they're 'owned' and operated by nation state governments. https://icannwiki.org/Country_code_top-level_domain https://icannwiki.org/Country_code_top-level_domain
- Symbiote 5y ago
  Country governments. A nation state is not just a fancy way of saying country or state. It means a case where a nation (group of people with a common culture etc) form the vast majority of a country. Japan is a nation state. The USA is not.
  - deleted 5y ago
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keeperofdakeys 5y ago
dig +noall +answer A ai ai. 86006 IN A 209.59.119.34 For better or worse the developers of browsers/libraires decided to allow it, it takes extra code to check for it and block it. Now that sites rely on it they can't exactly back track. Another strange one is domains with names that end in hypen - "example-.example.com". These are technically against standards, and don't work on linux/unix based OSs. However they happily work on windows. I've seen a github username that ended in -, which prevented me from viewing their github.io site. (Github seem to no longer allow this).
- kuschku 5y ago
  http://-emmawatson.tumblr.com/ http://-emmawatson.tumblr.com/ is a real site, accessible only from Windows
  - Tijdreiziger 5y ago
    I'm on Windows and it throws an HSTS error for me.
  - tpush 5y ago
    Works in Safari on macOS. It's mostly just a solid black page, though.
- jfrunyon 5y ago
  > For better or worse the developers of browsers/libraires decided to allow it, it takes extra code to check for it and block it It's pretty integral to the functioning of DNS: a hierarchy of names which each have records.
- maxh- 5y ago
  I have one of those, and I learned about this when I created a github.io site. It worked fine on Chrome in Windows, but Firefox read the SSL cert as invalid. It took me a while to figure out that it was the URL that was invalid.
jfrunyon 5y ago
There is not a technical rule against it (mostly), there is an administrative rule.

judge2020 5y ago

ai. is a ccTLD and there are far fewer regulations on them since they're 'owned' and operated by nation state governments. https://icannwiki.org/Country_code_top-level_domain https://icannwiki.org/Country_code_top-level_domain

Symbiote 5y ago
Country governments. A nation state is not just a fancy way of saying country or state. It means a case where a nation (group of people with a common culture etc) form the vast majority of a country. Japan is a nation state. The USA is not.
- deleted 5y ago
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keeperofdakeys 5y ago

dig +noall +answer A ai ai. 86006 IN A 209.59.119.34 For better or worse the developers of browsers/libraires decided to allow it, it takes extra code to check for it and block it. Now that sites rely on it they can't exactly back track. Another strange one is domains with names that end in hypen - "example-.example.com". These are technically against standards, and don't work on linux/unix based OSs. However they happily work on windows. I've seen a github username that ended in -, which prevented me from viewing their github.io site. (Github seem to no longer allow this).

kuschku 5y ago
http://-emmawatson.tumblr.com/ http://-emmawatson.tumblr.com/ is a real site, accessible only from Windows
- Tijdreiziger 5y ago
  I'm on Windows and it throws an HSTS error for me.
- tpush 5y ago
  Works in Safari on macOS. It's mostly just a solid black page, though.
jfrunyon 5y ago
> For better or worse the developers of browsers/libraires decided to allow it, it takes extra code to check for it and block it It's pretty integral to the functioning of DNS: a hierarchy of names which each have records.
maxh- 5y ago
I have one of those, and I learned about this when I created a github.io site. It worked fine on Chrome in Windows, but Firefox read the SSL cert as invalid. It took me a while to figure out that it was the URL that was invalid.

jfrunyon 5y ago

There is not a technical rule against it (mostly), there is an administrative rule.