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Unlike "com", Anguilla's TLD, "ai", has an A record pointing to a usable HTTP server: http://ai/ http://ai/ A few years ago I tried all two-letter ([a-z]) TLD
by maxdamantus 4y ago
Unlike "com", Anguilla's TLD, "ai", has an A record pointing to a usable HTTP server:
http://ai/ http://ai/
A few years ago I tried all two-letter ([a-z]) TLDs and found some others that were able to handle HTTP requests, but they were either just redirecting to another domain name (the ones I noted down back then don't seem to work anymore) or returning 500 errors (http://uz/ http://uz/).
These examples should at least demonstrate that there shouldn't technically be some special case for resolving TLDs. They work in normal web browsers, and presumably a lack of A records for other TLDs would just be some sort of convention.
- arzeth 4y agoI've recently (2022-03) done the same but also .space and all others from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom... and discovered: curl http://ai http://ai Apache's Hello world: curl http://pn http://pn ping tk ping uz ping cm All others had this error: curl: (6) Could not resolve host: %tld%
- easrng 4y agoYou need the trailing dot for it to reliably work: http://ai./ http://ai./