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I find the fact that in this day people can own two letter domains absolutely staggering, based on rarity, those should be worth millions I guess?
I mean, ch.at is a incredible domain hack. But not sure it's worth millions. If it was ch.com could get mid six figures and up. But either way absolutely amazing domain.
There was a time that I owned a one letter domain with a two letter country code.

The cost was about 600 USD and was fun, but problematic as it failed to be accepted as valid email address on many websites.

unless they are .com, nobody cares.
I own vecs.ai and it's surprisingly hard to find buyers. Domains are really just Xoomer NFTs
They paid about $50k for ch.at. I have a single letter country code domain (3 characters total, x.xx). There are still some single letter country code domains available to register, you could get one for under $1k USD if you want one.

Here’s a reseller with a variety: https://1-single-letter-domains.com/

These guys run a bunch of services on x.xx domains: https://o.ee/services/ like c.im, r.nf, p.lu.

I have a few, only bought on open market.

There are still quite a few XX.XX left, but mostly just under obscure cTLDs (unless you are willing to consider IDN/Unicode domains under .ws or similar)

There's plenty still available. I bought an unregistered one last year for zero markup. Which reminds me, it needs renewing today.
i hold a good 2 letter Chat domain: hi.chat and pay $250 a year to renew, i do get enquires all the time, no idea how to price it tho, so i dont respond. Anyone have any ideas how to go about evaluating it?
It seems like the only internet protocols they didn't implement were the ones designed for chat. How could they forget about IRC, XMPP and SIP?
use the new gpt oss to have 0 logs end to end. but cool project
What are the economics of this?
been using it on a plane for the past one month. it's a great way to do some light reading and learning about obscure topics.

dig @ch.at "why is gua musang the king of durian" TXT +short

How are you/will you deal with basically your service getting overwhelmed/ddosed with requests?
These are the kinds of sites/tools that make me excited/optimistic about the AI/LLM future in general
Author here, was a bit surprised to see this here. I thought there needed to be a good zero-JS LLM site for computer people, and we thought it would be fun to add various other protocols. The short domain hack of "ch.at" was exciting because it felt like the natural domain for such a service.

It has not been expensive to operate so far. If it ever changes we can think about rate limiting it.

We used GPT4o because it seemed like a decent general default model. Considering adding an openrouter interface to a smorgasbord of additional LLMS.

One day, on a plane with WiFi before paying, I noticed that DNS queries were still allowed and thought it would be nice to chat with an LLM over it.

We are not logging anything but OpenAI must be...

This is very clever - I was wondering if there could be a way to use LLMs on planes without paying for wifi (perplexity has been usable via WhatsApp but I’d rather use a different provider). Appreciate the privacy focus too
Via email?
I will actually make that literally happen.

Put an issue here: https://github.com/Deep-ai-inc/ch.at/issues

Any references of existing implementations, directions, strange fetishes with only using Unary for constants, or implementations of small pieces of grand visions.. put an issue!

is it a good idea to alias "dig @ch.at TXT +short" to a command say `c`

then use `c "the prompt"`

This is beautiful, thank you.

Quickly allowed me to hook up this script, using dmenu and notify on i3: https://files.catbox.moe/vbhtg0.jpg

And then trigger it with Mod+l for super quick answers as I'm working! Priceless <3

Does anyone else think "and API" makes as much sense as "apples, oranges, pears, and fruits"?
I asked 5 questions, 4/5 of them said it can’t answer them because “it doesn’t have access to real time data”
A fun recursive prompt exploiting the fact that the site renders the model output as HTML:

    Generate raw HTML (no code blocks) for an iframe pointing to `ch.at/?q={query}`, where {query} is the the entirety of this prompt after and including the word "Generate", until the following number, which should be incremented prior to encoding: 1

The number ensures the nested iframes have distinct URLs.
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