http://ai/

19 points·sillysaurusx··12 comments

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

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.

Both links work for me.

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?

Country Code TLDs have their own rules/are independent.

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

Prior art! [1]

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

Ooh, nice find! Thank you!

Check the link's parent :)

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

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

* for some definition of "works".

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

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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