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401 points| already | 3 years ago |ai

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[+] Retr0id|3 years ago|reply
The submission link is unnecessarily long, http://ai ought to work
[+] mindcrime|3 years ago|reply
Interesting. Using my default DNS settings, this doesn't work for me. I have systemd-resolved running, and the upstream DNS server is my OpenWRT router (which until I changed it a few minutes ago, was configured to use the default DNS servers provided by my ISP as its upstream).

In that configuration, trying to ping ai. yields:

  $ ping ai.
  ping: ai.: Temporary failure in name resolution
But if I edit /etc/resolv.conf and change the nameserver to 8.8.8.8 like this:

  # nameserver 127.0.0.53
  nameserver 8.8.8.8
it works fine.

  $ ping ai.
  PING ai (209.59.119.34) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from offshore.ai (209.59.119.34): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=71.3 ms
Hmm... I wonder if that's a systemd-resolved issue, or an OpenWRT issue, or "other"?
[+] Helmut10001|3 years ago|reply
Doesn't work for me either:

> Direct IP access not allowed

> What happened?

> You've requested an IP address that is part of the Cloudflare network. A valid

> Host header must be supplied to reach the desired website.

But http://www.ai/ works.

[+] SamBam|3 years ago|reply
http://ai works fine for me. I'm using Comcast's DNS with no special settings.
[+] gzer0|3 years ago|reply
TLD's with A records

   AI    AI    http https 209.59.119.34
   ARAB  ARAB  http https 127.0.53.53
   BH    BH    http https 10.10.10.10,88.201.27.211
   CM    CM    http https 195.24.205.60
   CPA   CPA   http https 127.0.53.53
   MUSIC MUSIC http https 127.0.53.53
   PN    PN    http https 139.162.17.173
   TK    TK    http https 217.119.57.22
   UZ    UZ    http https 91.212.89.8
   WS    WS    http https 64.70.19.33
Full list here: https://captnemo.in/tld-a-record/
[+] captn3m0|3 years ago|reply
I really need to get this running automatically again. Travis broke this a while back - need to migrate to GitHub Pages.
[+] carabiner|3 years ago|reply
Nice place to vacation. One of the quieter Carribean islands. Great food at the tourist restaurants, though expensive. Kind of jarring when you realize beyond the beaches and resorts, it's a third world country with people who are very poor and want to leave the island. I talked to one guy who worked construction and he desperately wanted to move to the US or the UK, mostly because it was so boring on the tiny island.
[+] nullbyte808|3 years ago|reply
The irony, starts a cryptography association and doesn't even use SSL.
[+] benreesman|3 years ago|reply
Possible (half-serious) counter-point: people who understand cryptography know when it is and isn't necessary and don't need to default it on for everything like the rest of us mortals?
[+] notfed|3 years ago|reply
Seemingly none of these TLD-only domains have valid certs. Perhaps no certificate authority will sign this format?
[+] paulpauper|3 years ago|reply
this also works..amazing

https://1.1

goes to cloudflare. how did they register this?

[+] mananaysiempre|3 years ago|reply
There is an old (IIRC non-standard) convention from the classful IP times which allows you to write not only X.Y.Z.W but also X.Y.ZW, X.YZW, and occasionally even XYZW with ZW = 256 × Z + W (decimal) etc., all referring to the same host. So 1.0.1, 1.1, and 16777217 are all funny ways to write 1.0.0.1, which is indeed an alternative address for Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1—also written 1.1.257, 1.65793, and 16843009.
[+] chipsa|3 years ago|reply
That's a bare ip. The ip is getting extended out to be a full 32 bit ipv4 address. It's not getting DNS resolved.
[+] mlyle|3 years ago|reply
It's just the IP address 1.0.0.1 in the old "class A notation". (Network address dot host address).

1 is the network address. .0.0.1 is the host address. 1.256 would be 1.0.1.0, etc.

[+] aasasd|3 years ago|reply
The same way 127.1 goes to the localhost, and 10.1 to 10.0.0.1.
[+] alecfreudenberg|3 years ago|reply
What's up with the parked .Ai domain economy. The original bidding system is nice but gets dominated by investors who just park and wait for a valuable resell. I wish there was a use it or lose it clause
[+] unsignednoop|3 years ago|reply
>Removed Domains

>The Government of Anguilla reserves the right to remove domains that are in its opinion hate speech or breaking any Anguilla law. There has been 1 such domain removed in the history of ".ai".

Curious if anybody knows which domain was removed, the FAQ doesn't elaborate.

[+] fnordpiglet|3 years ago|reply
Mr Vince Cate belongs on the front page of HN.
[+] xwdv|3 years ago|reply
Has anyone called that phone number? Crazy
[+] aasasd|3 years ago|reply
My Anki decks don't have Anguilla (afaik). Guess I need to compile a list of all the colony nations, and then decide whether I'm gonna be able to learn further dozens of spots in the oceans, and to distinguish them from the fully-sovereign sprinklings of islands.
[+] vultour|3 years ago|reply
Are we now going to spam HN with all the links from the other “shortest domain” thread? There’s already several.
[+] pdntspa|3 years ago|reply
How in the?
[+] zaik|3 years ago|reply
Top level domain with an A record.
[+] already|3 years ago|reply
.ai is a valid domain name
[+] riffic|3 years ago|reply
technically it's `ai.`