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That sounds interesting. Do you have a link? I didn’t see anything relevant on google.

Thank you. Not sure how I didn’t see that.

I'm not sure if it works in all browsers, but for me at least, even http://ai is enough to reach the site.

I'm sure admin@ai has a hell of a time getting his email address past naive form validation regexes.

I’ve run into issues with sites failing to validate .io addresses.

Wow, that’s crazy. "ai" by itself is sort of the ultimate domain name.

I had to go to http://ai. in chrome (note the "." for the root is at the end), "ai." will autoexpand. Interesting.

It should, it is a valid domain name after all. something.ai is a subdomain of the .ai domain.

Interesting, this used to work for me but it seems now that Chrome has went out of its way to break it because it still works in Curl.

But wtf, Firefox redirects it to uniregistry.com :o

But wtf, Firefox redirects it to uniregistry.com :o

Same thing on mobile, but it's taking you to `ai.com` first, and then redirects to Unregistry as it looks to be for sale.

And as another commenter has stated `http://ai.` works as expected in FF.

But is is ai taking me to ai.com? Why is firefox making that choice?

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