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2 points by montag on May 28, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments
Fun fact: the .ai TLD (http://ai) works by itself, although Hacker News (and probably lots of other things) won't accept it as a valid URL.


All tlds can be used as valid domain name. So you can have http://com/ or bob@com email id.

Turns out they are prohibited for new gTLDs. https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/new-gtld-dotl...


Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31689505

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32804189


Browsers won't resolve it, but you can `dig ai.` and go to the IP address http://209.59.119.34

Also: http://ai./ works (at least in Safari)


Hmmm, what do you mean by work?

http://ai doesn't open in a browser for me, while http://offshore.ai/ does work.


Not anymore




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