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Re:Google.ai by tghw on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:24PM (#14361923)
Slightly off topic, but this may be one of the first cases of a reversible domain.

https://google.ai/ and https://ai.google/ both point to the same page.

Re:Google.ai by fsckin on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @05:54PM (#14363154)
This domain is reversible: http://net.net Created Date: 1994-10-23
Re:Google.ai by mhandley on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @06:31PM (#14363385)
Of course, back in the 1980s all UK domain names were the other way round. UCL was uk.ac.ucl.cs if you used X25 and cs.ucl.ac.uk if you used TCP/IP. UCL was the gateway between the two worlds, and used magic heuristics to figure out which universe to forward email to. For example, if the domain started with "cs" it was a TCP/IP address and if it ended with "cs" it was an X25 address. Which worked well, right up until Czechoslovakia joined the Internet.
Re:Google.ai by JimWestergren on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:46PM (#14362164)
Yes but google.ai is the canonical version: <link rel="canonical" href="https://google.ai/">
Re:Google.ai by Savageman on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:55AM (#14365764)
For some reasons, both homepages currently show as <link rel="canonical" href="http://localhost/">
Re:Google.ai by maxmcd on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:33PM (#14362030)
Interesting. You can have one too if you want.

One example: limited.international and international.limited are both available

Re:Google.ai by ryanlol on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @04:22PM (#14362448)
>One example: limited.international and international.limited are both available

Both of those appear to be blocked by the registry.

Edit: Nevermind, not blocked but flagged as "premium" and sold at ~double price.

Re:Google.ai by art0rz on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:31PM (#14362012)
https://com.google/ works, although it redirects to https://google.com/
Re:Google.ai by CydeWeys on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:39PM (#14362091)
com.google is left over from our April Fools joke for 2015, a reversed version of the Google Search home page. More info here, grep for Elgoog: https://thenextweb.com/google/2015/04/01/roundup-all-of-goog...

We don't have the reversed version up anymore; it's now just a redirect.

Re:Google.ai by aatchb on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @06:52PM (#14363496)
Thanks for this, my employer (a large bank) blocks .ai
Re:Google.ai by scoot on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:31PM (#14362014)
com.com, net.net?
Re:Google.ai by manifestsilence on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @05:30PM (#14362983)
Someone should make a Windows programming how-to site and call it: calm.dotnet.com
Re:Google.ai by NanoWar on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @07:48PM (#14363822)
I thought dotnet.net was already bad...
Re:Google.ai by ehsankia on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @07:43PM (#14363796)
Aren't .blog TLDs available. I'm surprised google.blog isn't registered.
Re:Google.ai by radec on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @11:27PM (#14364632)
It appears to be registered by google, just isn't being actively used.

blog.google works though

Re:Google.ai by MertsA on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:43PM (#14364056)
com.google and google.com also point to the same page.
Re:Google.ai by bbcbasic on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:51PM (#14364087)
shouldn't that be ia.elgoog