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This is a valid domain name (remove www)
- theseobosscom 4y agoEven if you remove www it works, i.e. http://ai/ http://ai/
- slater 4y agoDoesn't work for me (macOS, Firefox)
- ClassyJacket 4y agoWorks for me on Firefox Android
- theseobosscom 4y agoWorks for me on MacOS Chrome
- skykooler 4y agoWorks fine for me (macOS, Firefox)
- selcuka 4y agoClicking a link, copy/pasting it, and manually typing it all behave differently. Try typing it.
- altilunium 4y agoDoesn't work for me (Windows, Vivaldi)
- ehPReth 4y agotry: http://ai http://ai. (note the dot on the end)
- dumbfounder 4y agoThis one works for me. But I don't get it. Can someone explain? This isn't browser trickery, nslookup succeeds for "ai." but not "ai". > ai ** UnKnown can't find ai: Non-existent domain Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.86.1 > www.ai Non-authoritative answer: Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.86.1 Name: www.ai Address: 209.59.119.34 > ai. Non-authoritative answer: Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.86.1 Name: ai Address: 209.59.119.34 >
- adzm 4y agohttp://ai./ http://ai./ as well
- aquanext 4y agoThat works for me in Safari on macOS.
- aquanext 4y agoCan someone explain to me why this is a valid URL?
- Thorrez 4y ago>A domain is a non-empty ASCII string that identifies a realm within a network. [RFC1034][1] >The example.com and example.com. domains are not equivalent and typically treated as distinct.[1] When a user needs to type a domain name, the length of each label is omitted and the labels are separated by dots ("."). Since a complete domain name ends with the root label, this leads to a printed form which ends in a dot. We use this property to distinguish between: - a character string which represents a complete domain name (often called "absolute"). For example, "poneria.ISI.EDU." - a character string that represents the starting labels of a domain name which is incomplete, and should be completed by local software using knowledge of the local domain (often called "relative"). For example, "poneria" used in the ISI.EDU domain. Relative names are either taken relative to a well known origin, or to a list of domains used as a search list. Relative names appear mostly at the user interface, where their interpretation varies from implementation to implementation, and in master files, where they are relative to a single origin domain name. The most common interpretation uses the root "." as either the single origin or as one of the members of the search list, so a multi-label relative name is often one where the trailing dot has been omitted to save typing.[2] [1] https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-domain https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-domain [2] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1034 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1034
- fuckcensorship 4y agoDoesn’t work for me on iOS Safari.
- remram 4y agoDoesn't work for me on firefox or curl. dig can find it but only with +trace, host reports SERVFAIL. "Valid domain name" seems a stretch.
- eadler 4y agon@ai is also a valid email address. Owned by a guy named Ian.
- theseobosscom 4y agocreative!
- kordlessagain 4y agoI suppose it should be possible to get an MX record to work with a root domain, but that person that has it would have to probably work for or be the owner.
- LeoPanthera 4y agoI have a very short email address (in the form a@aa.aa) and I haven't found anywhere that doesn't accept it - except for humans, who often refuse to believe it is real and will insist on a longer one. (I have a backup longer one.)
- BrandoElFollito 4y agoI have a similar one and it has been rejected many times. I still write to the company but nobody gives a shit. I also tried on twitter. Surprisingly people are fine with it, I think that this is thanks to social media handlers such as @wazoo - people group all these together as "email and such"
- mnutt 4y agoA long time back I entertained the idea of buying hc.im and using the email address le@hc.im. (my name is michael) Perhaps making business cards with a laser cutout so I could turn the card over if it wasn't apparent. But two-letter im domains are a very expensive ongoing cost so it didn't seem worth it for the gimmick.
- CodeBrad 4y ago"Server Not found" for any of: - https://ai/ https://ai/ - https://www.ai/ https://www.ai/ - http://ai/ http://ai/ - http://ai http://ai. - http://ai http://ai and http://.ai/ http://.ai/ gets redirected to a search engine searchfor ".ai" by firefox. But http://www.ai/ http://www.ai/ works for some reason.
- metadat 4y agoI was mistaken. Thanks for the -30 downvotes HN.
- selcuka 4y agoIt is interesting because http://.ai http://.ai works (it says remove www, not the dot). Edit: The HN generated link does not work because it appends a trailing slash to the end.
- dleslie 4y agoThe http://ai/ http://ai/ works with Edge on Android.
- kome 4y agohttp://ai http://ai works for me in firefox. perhaps you are using a wrong browser?
- bombcar 4y ago
- codecutter 4y agoOnly http://ai http://ai (with or without trailing dot) did not work for me using DuckDuckGo browser on Android phone.
- dleslie 4y agoWorks for Edge on Android.
- parekhnish 4y agoThe page itself has a (hidden) link to its mentions in popular news and elsewhere www.ai/publicity
- willcipriano 4y agoIf you are now just learning that .ai domains are available, I'll save you some time, samur.ai is taken. Unfortunately it appears a link farmer has it rather than a cool hacker.
- theseobosscom 4y agoI was about to purchase it, lol
- asciimov 4y agoHow?
- 5ESS 4y agoI notice it works for pretty much every TLD, including .com too. http://com http://com. resolves to http://www.com http://www.com http://cd http://cd. shows a list of all such sites. It seems likely that the browser has some kind of logic in the resolver to make this work specially for “www” domains.
- a1371 4y agoSo did someone buy an empty ".ai" domain? Is that how?
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- throwaddzuzxd 4y agoMost likely it's the registry of the .ai who manually created a DNS A record for "ai."
- shp0ngle 4y agoHuh, another dodgy tax haven I did not know about!
- selcuka 4y agoTo all who can't replicate it: Clicking a link, copy/pasting the URL, and typing it from the keyboard all behave differently. Make sure that you manually type http://ai/ into the location bar (do not use https). Also try with and without the trailing slash.
- LeoPanthera 4y agoSafari on macOS will not load this address. It does resolve, weirdly, "host" in the Terminal works and I can see Safari's requests being answered by my home DNS server in the logs. But Safari just throws an error: Can't connect to the server "ai". Update: It works if you include a trailing dot: http://ai http://ai. Update 2: HN's URL parser does not include the dot in the hyperlink. Frustrating.
- 5ESS 4y agohttp://ai http://ai. Works in safari for iOS, shockingly.
- LeoPanthera 4y agoHuh. It does not work on my iPhone. Same error. I wonder what the difference is.
- petee 4y agoThe link didn't include it, but try again with the trailing '.' period
- LeoPanthera 4y agoAha, yes, this works.
- selcuka 4y agoWeird. `dig` on macOS does not resolve it but `host` does.
- srvmshr 4y agoInterestingly, most WHOIS services fail to resolve this domain, and show alternative such as ai.com. Its like going off the marauders map :) The page informs us it is registered in Anguilla.
- 5ESS 4y agoOkay..WTF? http://ai http://ai. Didn’t work on Chrome Mac but it works in Safari for iOS. Is this a bug or how the hell is this possible? It’s flipping everything I thought I knew about domains upside down.
- ev1 4y ago'ai' is a resolvable DNS name, just like you can resolve 'localhost' The owner of 'ai' decided to add an A record on their zone.
- iRomain 4y agoSo they registered the domain "www" just like they could have registered "google" or "lol". You can access Google by typing: - google.com (domain name) - www.google.com (subdomain) The same for the domain in question: - www.ai (domain name) - www.www.ai (subdomain) ~~The reason why typing ".ai" or "ai", etc. In your browser works is in IMO due to the internals of the browser that automatically adds a www in front of the domain if it can't resolve it because historically so many websites run on http://www.example.com http://www.example.com and neglect to setup http://example.com~~ http://example.com~~ Edit: as pointed by another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31690379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31690379) there are actually TLDs with A records which is the case here. So to take my example from above: The registry responsible for the AI TLD set up a website on the domain name "www.ai" but neglected to set it up on the subdomain "www.www.ai" Instead, they set it up on the TLD "ai" which is indeed very unusual.
- LeoPanthera 4y agoThis is not correct. The TLD alone is a valid domain name, although in most cases it must be followed by a trailing dot. "ai." is valid, "ai" may not be.
- jmprspret 4y agoI thought 'ai' was valid according to spec, but depending on your browser it may or may not actually go to 'http://ai./ http://ai./'
- iRomain 4y agoIt is a valid domain in the technical DNS sense. But practically speaking, each TLD has "ns" entries in the root zone database, not "A", "CNAME", etc. entries. This is just a guy who registered www under a TLD that's it.
- LeoPanthera 4y agoThis has nothing to do with the "www" subdomain. I assure you that the unix "host" tool is not trying to guess subdomains if the lookup fails: $ host "ai." ai has address 209.59.119.34 ai mail is handled by 10 mail.offshore.ai.
- unfoldedCravat 4y agoAnd just like that, all the www.* domain names have been bought.
- captn3m0 4y agoI've been maintaining a list here for a few years: https://captnemo.in/tld-a-record/ https://captnemo.in/tld-a-record/ (Automatically updated, but Travis broke this a while ago). There's some older diffs on my blog[1] if you search for "A Record") [1]: https://captnemo.in/archive.html https://captnemo.in/archive.html
- rambojazz 4y agoIf I remove "www" as per title, ie. if I type ".ai" or "https://.ai https://.ai" it doesn't work. What am I missing?
- throwaddzuzxd 4y agohttp://ai http://ai