Shortest URLs on the Internet
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Shortest URLs on the Internet
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#2TLDR It's http://ai (or http://ai./) and a few other 2-letter TLDs. Doesn't seem to work on my Android phone but works from another machine.
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#3Close second: http://1.1
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#4TLDR It's http://ai (or http://ai./ ) and a few other 2-letter TLDs. Doesn't seem to work on my Android phone but works from another machine.
Works on pixel6
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#5It’s interesting that Anguilla is the ai domain. I didn’t know that! It’s also a nice little island to take a trip to if you want to go somewhere that’s not too touristy. Beautiful beaches, and at least last time I was there, they didn’t allow cruise ships. So it ended up being a beautiful and quiet getaway. They do, however, drive on the left side of the road, but with North American cars, so it’s a little odd driving there at first!
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#6Cool to know, i guess.
TIL that dotless record on newer gTLDs is forbidden, which explains my age-old question: "if google holds google., why are they only using it on domains.google? Surely having the url https://google would be desirable for the folks in marketing?". The answer is that they can't possibly because the ban was added precisely because of this.
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#7TLDR It's http://ai (or http://ai./ ) and a few other 2-letter TLDs. Doesn't seem to work on my Android phone but works from another machine.
Works on pixel 6 pro and pixel 4a
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#8Close second: http://1.1
Why does 1.1 resolve to 1.0.0.1? I don't recall this being in any of the documents about CIDRs. Are browsers implicitly mapping IPv4 addresses temporarily into IPv6 addresses during parsing, such that "1.1" becomes "1::1", and then gets IPv6 abbreviated-form expansion applied to it?
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#9TLDR It's http://ai (or http://ai./ ) and a few other 2-letter TLDs. Doesn't seem to work on my Android phone but works from another machine.
Also doesn’t work on my iPhone.
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#10TLDR It's http://ai (or http://ai./ ) and a few other 2-letter TLDs. Doesn't seem to work on my Android phone but works from another machine.
Also doesn’t work on my iPhone.
Works on iOS, but the final dot (after the ai) MUST be there. So it must be exactly:
“ http://ai. ”
EDIT: It will also depend on your DNS server apparently. I use Cloudflare’s.