http://ai/

Posted by sillysaurusx on Friday August 20, 2021 @11:31PM
from the self-post dept.

http://ai/ is a valid URL. I found it interesting and tried to submit it to HN, but HN refuses it.

Anyway, that was the intellectually interesting thing: apparently http://ai/ is quite unexpectedly a real website called "Offshore Information Services Ltd."

Originally discovered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28253333

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Re:http://ai/ by rkwasny on Saturday August 21, 2021 @03:05AM (#28254905)

.ai registration is managed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Cate very interesting story there

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Re:http://ai/ by josephcsible on Friday August 20, 2021 @11:41PM (#28253979)

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

Also, I thought there was some kind of rule that TLD operators weren't supposed to put A records directly on them.

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Re:http://ai/ by tomklein on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:36PM (#28282295)

Country Code TLDs have their own rules/are independent.

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Re:http://ai/ by kypro on Saturday August 21, 2021 @06:18PM (#28261060)

Works for me but interested why DNS doesn’t seem to resolve for others. I guess some DNS servers don’t recognise addresses assigned directly to a TLD?

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Re:http://ai/ by tylercrompton on Saturday August 21, 2021 @12:18AM (#28254140)

Both links work for me.

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Re:http://ai/ by ttctciyf on Saturday August 21, 2021 @02:03AM (#28254620)

> Originally discovered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28253333

Prior art! [1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21914570

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Re:http://ai/ by sillysaurusx on Saturday August 21, 2021 @02:10AM (#28254650)

Ooh, nice find! Thank you!

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Re:http://ai/ by ttctciyf on Saturday August 21, 2021 @03:04AM (#28254900)

Check the link's parent :)

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Re:http://ai/ by DerekBickerton on Saturday August 21, 2021 @10:54AM (#28257490)

Here's the official 'NIC' page for it:

http://nic.com.ai/

I tend to avoid ccTLDs because the country sort of controls the TLD and it can be hard to get it back if they've stopped you from using it

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Re:http://ai/ by muldvarp on Sunday August 22, 2021 @05:32AM (#28264091)

http://bh./ works as well.*

* for some definition of "works".

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Re:http://ai/ by max_ on Saturday August 21, 2021 @03:06AM (#28254914)

How is this even possible? How do I get one?

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Re:http://ai/ by gorkish on Saturday August 21, 2021 @07:39PM (#28261597)

Buy a gTLD or get a foreign government to let you manage their ccTLD. Then it is simple: set an A record on the root.

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