The Wikipedia entry on the .ai TLD notes that it has an MX record, so you can send e-mails to name@ai: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ai

The story of Vince Cate (http://offshore.ai/vince/), a CMU graduate who emigrated to the Anguilles in the 90s and (as far as I know) runs the AI registry there is also quite interesting, there's e.g. an old WIRED article from 97 about some of his business endeavors there: https://www.wired.com/1997/07/crypto-2/. The Anguilla News website has a more recent article on him: https://news.ai/vince-cate-in-search-of-bees/

If you are on an iPhone, type: "ai." to get to the site.

The trailing dot denotes the root of the DNS hierarchy and makes the domain "fully qualified". Otherwise it appears to fail a local integrity check if you try for just "ai"

This freaks me out :) Can someone explain this magic?

There's no magic, it's just an A record

Yeah ok - thanks. Just not used to it I guess.

Why is this not used more? Bad UX? Internet Etiquette? Some Sec. reason? Just thinking out loud.

Thnx for the hint. Kinda makes sense.

Edit: after your hint. Started some investigation. It is time to get me a personal TLD so I also can have a TLD-less domain. :p

Bucketlist.push(TLD-lessDom)

Error: Name not resolved

x.com