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To all who can't replicate it: Clicking a link, copy/pasting the URL, and typing it from the keyboard all behave differently. Make sure that you manually type http://ai/ into the location bar (do not use https). Also try with and without the trailing slash.
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I'm not saying "ai" is not a valid domain. I'm just guessing why people get to a website when they just type "ai". I'm on my phone now, if you search for the ai entry in the root zone file ( https://www.iana.org/domains/root/files ) you should find that IP returned by your host command. Can you try curling "ai" and see if the content returned (if any) is the same as the one from "www.ai"?
They are the same, but that's not really the point. www has been registered in addition to the entries for the root TLD. You said "the internals of the browser that automatically adds a www in front" - that's irrelevant. host isn't doing that, curl isn't doing that.
Because http://com. Works as well.
So did someone buy an empty ".ai" domain? Is that how?
n@ai is also a valid email address. Owned by a guy named Ian.