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Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by james_pm on Monday July 10, 2017 @02:31PM (#14738459)
Like .ai, the new "hot" ccTLD.
Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by CydeWeys on Monday July 10, 2017 @02:37PM (#14738520)
We just used ai.google instead of google.ai as the canonical domain name for Google's AI initiative for precisely this reason. (We run .google and you can see the source code at https://nomulus.foo )
Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by walrus01 on Monday July 10, 2017 @05:54PM (#14740040)
I just looked at the wikipedia page for the .ai ccTLD and registering something in Anguilla requires.... a fax machine?

It's like time traveling to 1987.

Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by stordoff on Monday July 10, 2017 @09:54PM (#14741061)
If I'm reading https://whois.ai/cgi-bin/register.py? correctly, I'm not sure it's strictly required - it might just delay our account by a month (it's not 100% clear IMO):

> We will email you a password after which you need to login and pay the $100, unless you are resident in Anguilla.

> After this we will send you a letter, fax and short text message (SMS) with codes on them. Please, be sure your information is correct so you can receive verifiaction codes. When you get these you need to login and enter them.

> We will also wait 3 months to make sure there is no problem with your credit card. But each successfully verification will decrease this period by one month, so if you pass all of them you do not need to wait 3 month.

Shame it's so arcane/expensive ($100 for account, then $100/2 years per domain) - there's a couple of joke domains I might have picked up if they were cheap enough (gomennas.ai / ebihara.ai [character from Persona4]).

I do appreciate that the TLD alone resolves though: http://ai./

Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by mindcrime on Monday July 10, 2017 @10:26PM (#14741178)
FWIW, 101 Domains allows you to register a .ai domain (I registered zuse.ai there) and you don't have to do anything with a fax, etc. Now, maybe 101 has to fax something to somebody in Anguilla, but as the end user, you're isolated from that. Unless things have changed since I registered my domain.
Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by rmwaite on Monday July 10, 2017 @05:46PM (#14739980)
Hey, when are you guys gonna open .meme? Asking for a friend :-)
Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by CydeWeys on Monday July 10, 2017 @06:39PM (#14740291)
I'd love to open it up tomorrow, but alas, I'm not the decision maker.
Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by walrus01 on Monday July 10, 2017 @06:34PM (#14740267)
Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by Mithorium on Monday July 10, 2017 @10:27PM (#14741182)
How about setting MX records for .google so you can have name@google emails
Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by CydeWeys on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @12:11AM (#14741520)
We also have .gmail, so you can imagine some clever possibilities with that.

God knows how widely a "ben@google" email address would work though. I'm going to guess not very.

Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by Mithorium on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @01:16AM (#14741731)
True, I imagine a lot of software wouldn't know how to handle an email without a dot in the domain part

That and apparently ICANN would frown upon such an implementation [1]

[1] https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en

Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by Endy on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:18AM (#14742904)
Wouldn't that work like the old Compuserve or Prodigy email addresses? And if it would, wouldn't most email clients have to have "back-compatibility" with it?
Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by brongondwana on Monday July 10, 2017 @11:30PM (#14741379)
There's far too much software that won't accept that, sadly.
Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by vincentmarle on Monday July 10, 2017 @08:07PM (#14740657)
Any ETA on .app?