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19 points by sillysaurusx ↗ HN
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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josephcsible
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.

kypro
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?
tomklein
Country Code TLDs have their own rules/are independent.
max_
How is this even possible? How do I get one?
gorkish
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.
DerekBickerton
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