.ai

http://www.ai?

by already • 4 years ago

401 95 4 years ago

already2• 4 years ago

.ai is a valid domain name

riffic2• 4 years ago

technically it's `ai.`

eCa• 4 years ago

Similarly, we’re on

    https://news.ycombinator.com./

(Weird new line to get the whole url displayed)

mtmail• 4 years ago

See also "Shortest URLs on the Internet" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32801359

notpushkin• 4 years ago

You can submit just the ai. by the way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32804251

HN gets confused and doesn't add the domain name after the link title though.

xwdv• 4 years ago

Has anyone called that phone number? Crazy

spaghettiToy• 4 years ago

After getting one of these short domains/urls and it not working on my browser, I'll be a late adopter. I think I spent like $30/yr on whatever I bought too.

Retr0id• 4 years ago

The submission link is unnecessarily long, http://ai ought to work

geowwy• 4 years ago

http://ai/ doesn't work for me, but http://ai./ does

tgsovlerkhgsel• 4 years ago

I get a SERVFAIL from what I presume to be systemd-resolved for both. When querying my router or 8.8.8.8 directly with dig, both work.

Bjartr• 4 years ago

Neither works for me in Chrome on Android

mindcrime4• 4 years ago

Interesting. Using my default DNS settings, this doesn't work for me. I have systemd-resolved running, and the upstream DNS server is my OpenWRT router (which until I changed it a few minutes ago, was configured to use the default DNS servers provided by my ISP as its upstream).

In that configuration, trying to ping ai. yields:

  $ ping ai.
  ping: ai.: Temporary failure in name resolution

But if I edit /etc/resolv.conf and change the nameserver to 8.8.8.8 like this:

  # nameserver 127.0.0.53
  nameserver 8.8.8.8

it works fine.

  $ ping ai.
  PING ai (209.59.119.34) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from offshore.ai (209.59.119.34): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=71.3 ms

Hmm... I wonder if that's a systemd-resolved issue, or an OpenWRT issue, or "other"?

anderskaseorg• 4 years ago

OpenWrt by default enables the --domain-needed option of dnsmasq, which blocks forwarding of queries with one component. You can turn it off at Network → DHCP and DNS → General Settings → Domain required.

However, systemd-resolved may refuse to resolve such queries anyway: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/8967. There’s apparently a ResolveUnicastSingleLabel option to allow them.

Note that there are a number of reasons you might want these queries to remain blocked: https://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence-reports-documen...

SamBam• 4 years ago

http://ai works fine for me. I'm using Comcast's DNS with no special settings.

psnehanshu2• 4 years ago

A dot is required at the end. http://ai.

psnehanshu2• 4 years ago

Turns out HN doesn't consider the final dot to be a part of the URL.

Helmut10001• 4 years ago

Doesn't work for me either:

Direct IP access not allowed
What happened?
You've requested an IP address that is part of the Cloudflare network. A valid
Host header must be supplied to reach the desired website.

But http://www.ai/ works.

fnordpiglet• 4 years ago

Mr Vince Cate belongs on the front page of HN.

pdntspa• 4 years ago

How in the?

zaik• 4 years ago

Top level domain with an A record.

triyambakam• 4 years ago

Can you explain further? That still doesn't make sense to me.

torkya• 4 years ago

Very good power

layer82• 4 years ago

Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31689505

Comment of note:

n@ai is also a valid email address. Owned by a guy named Ian.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31689569)

pards• 4 years ago

I bet that fails all email address validation code

cheschire• 4 years ago

“Falsehoods programmers believe about email, volume 2022”

mizzao• 4 years ago

"All models are wrong but some are useful" probably applies here.

s/model/email validation code

paulpauper• 4 years ago

this also works..amazing

https://1.1

goes to cloudflare. how did they register this?

chipsa• 4 years ago

That's a bare ip. The ip is getting extended out to be a full 32 bit ipv4 address. It's not getting DNS resolved.

mlyle• 4 years ago

It's just the IP address 1.0.0.1 in the old "class A notation". (Network address dot host address).

1 is the network address. .0.0.1 is the host address. 1.256 would be 1.0.1.0, etc.

mananaysiempre2• 4 years ago

There is an old (IIRC non-standard) convention from the classful IP times which allows you to write not only X.Y.Z.W but also X.Y.ZW, X.YZW, and occasionally even XYZW with ZW = 256 × Z + W (decimal) etc., all referring to the same host. So 1.0.1, 1.1, and 16777217 are all funny ways to write 1.0.0.1, which is indeed an alternative address for Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1—also written 1.1.257, 1.65793, and 16843009.

miguelrochefort• 4 years ago

I wonder what will happen when browsers start supporting Handshake (HNS) top-level domains such as “.1”

aasasd2• 4 years ago

The same way 127.1 goes to the localhost, and 10.1 to 10.0.0.1.

russellbeattie• 4 years ago

Just use http://16777217 instead.

myth_drannon• 4 years ago

Vince Cate also manages the auctions for .ai domains https://auction.whois.ai/auctions

nullbyte808• 4 years ago

The irony, starts a cryptography association and doesn't even use SSL.

benreesman3• 4 years ago

Possible (half-serious) counter-point: people who understand cryptography know when it is and isn't necessary and don't need to default it on for everything like the rest of us mortals?

xurukefi3• 4 years ago

Serious counter-counter-point for anybody interested: HTTPS protects people from ISP-based MITM attacks. This by itself is more than enough reason to always use HTTPS if your website can be accessed by other people, even if it is just a small little innocent static blob of HTML.

mholt2• 4 years ago

Those who know, know, that selectively using encryption creates metadata that paints targets on more sensitive communications

benreesman3• 4 years ago

I was just kidding around folks: obviously TLS is the right default.

Incidentally you can bet your ass that someone at YC has a model of their amortized differential deal flow per page view and that they work harder at keeping it up-to-date than the RustHN discord channel where they call in the Team.

So troll-ass threads like this are pure free-ride.

notfed• 4 years ago

Seemingly none of these TLD-only domains have valid certs. Perhaps no certificate authority will sign this format?

slmjkdbtl• 4 years ago

The page also got some really good art

gzer0• 4 years ago

TLD's with A records

   AI    AI    http https 209.59.119.34
   ARAB  ARAB  http https 127.0.53.53
   BH    BH    http https 10.10.10.10,88.201.27.211
   CM    CM    http https 195.24.205.60
   CPA   CPA   http https 127.0.53.53
   MUSIC MUSIC http https 127.0.53.53
   PN    PN    http https 139.162.17.173
   TK    TK    http https 217.119.57.22
   UZ    UZ    http https 91.212.89.8
   WS    WS    http https 64.70.19.33

Full list here: https://captnemo.in/tld-a-record/

captn3m0• 4 years ago

I really need to get this running automatically again. Travis broke this a while back - need to migrate to GitHub Pages.

already2• 4 years ago

Another one https://uz/

adam12• 4 years ago

"potential security risk"

dmix• 4 years ago

It claims the SSL cert is invalid on Firefox but it appears to be a valid one (just assigned to a high level domain). Looks like a potential DNS parsing issue in FF?

alecfreudenberg• 4 years ago

What's up with the parked .Ai domain economy. The original bidding system is nice but gets dominated by investors who just park and wait for a valuable resell. I wish there was a use it or lose it clause

aasasd2• 4 years ago

My Anki decks don't have Anguilla (afaik). Guess I need to compile a list of all the colony nations, and then decide whether I'm gonna be able to learn further dozens of spots in the oceans, and to distinguish them from the fully-sovereign sprinklings of islands.

carabiner• 4 years ago

Nice place to vacation. One of the quieter Carribean islands. Great food at the tourist restaurants, though expensive. Kind of jarring when you realize beyond the beaches and resorts, it's a third world country with people who are very poor and want to leave the island. I talked to one guy who worked construction and he desperately wanted to move to the US or the UK, mostly because it was so boring on the tiny island.

humanfromearth• 4 years ago

I love these post burning man posts.

unsignednoop• 4 years ago

Removed Domains
The Government of Anguilla reserves the right to remove domains that are in its opinion hate speech or breaking any Anguilla law. There has been 1 such domain removed in the history of ".ai".

Curious if anybody knows which domain was removed, the FAQ doesn't elaborate.

mamoriamohit• 4 years ago

For a second, I thought I am high.

vultour• 4 years ago

Are we now going to spam HN with all the links from the other “shortest domain” thread? There’s already several.

JoeyBananas• 4 years ago

this is the most "OG" domain name I've ever seen

.ai

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