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I was admin of a country code ccTLD once (let's call it .xx) and I created aliases and a forward for 'i' to my inbox. and put a 5 minute MX record on it. From

I was admin of a country code ccTLD once (let's call it .xx) and I created aliases and a forward for 'i' to my inbox. and put a 5 minute MX record on it. From a shell elsewhere in the world I sent email to i@xx ... And it arrived! The shortest fully qualified email address in the world! Against policy tho. I took out the MX record. It was a fun nerd moment.

eadler 2y ago
Reminds me of n@ai ﹣ Goes to someone named Ian. ∴dig ai MX ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> ai MX ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40166 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;ai. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: ai. 3600 IN MX 10 mail.offshore.ai. ;; Query time: 5 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1) ;; WHEN: Sun Jul 07 17:19:47 PDT 2024 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 63
- ilya_m 2y ago
  Ian Goldberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Goldberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Goldberg)
  - swyx 2y ago
    > Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, was a research assistant of Goldberg while a student at the University of Waterloo dang. i hope he invested
  - eadler 2y ago
    ha! makes sense. I know who Ian Goldberg is, but didn't associate them with n@ai.