A) heh. Always love a good dad joke, never apologize! I'm not sure many zoomers made it on here anyway, lets be real.
B) That's honestly interesting, to be boring for a moment. I've been fascinated with super basic names ever since I saw Vercel's giant billboard in the center of SF bragging about snagging `ai` on the npm registry!
I thought single-letter domain names were banned in the 90s except for a handful of grandfathered ones, but turns out that was just for .com and .net[1] -- .ai is open for business! So far, wikipedia just lists c.ai (CharacterAI) and x.ai (Grok), so I'll have to add this exciting new one to the list.
Towards your joke, y.ai is for sale by a Chinese phone number, and it seems interest has shot up in reaction to GLM4.5! Of the rest,
- Broken apps/underused: a, d, f, i, l, t, v
- For sale from China for best offer: b, h, k, k, m, n, u, y
- For sale for a specific value: j: $3M (!!!)
- Used:
- c: CharacterAI
- e: An everything app?
- g: Google (of course)
- o: some very rich guy[2] who also owns "Neuro.ai" & "Soul.ai" and makes chat avatars
- p: marketing SaaS that redirects to programmai.com (baffling choice)
- q: ...something ominous?[3]
- r: E-Commerce SaaS
- s: some *awesome* activist programmer named Sai's old-school landing page (by far the best one!)
- w: distributed computing project to "build distributed superintelligence"
- x: Twitter
- z: The third largest AI company in China![4]
Honestly my biggest takeaways are 1) Someone in China had the prescience to go on a buying spree, and 2) not a single YCombinator firm snagged one! I guess "needs YCombinator" and "has millions to spend on a vanity URL" turn out to be mututally exclusive descriptors...
B) That's honestly interesting, to be boring for a moment. I've been fascinated with super basic names ever since I saw Vercel's giant billboard in the center of SF bragging about snagging `ai` on the npm registry!
I thought single-letter domain names were banned in the 90s except for a handful of grandfathered ones, but turns out that was just for .com and .net[1] -- .ai is open for business! So far, wikipedia just lists c.ai (CharacterAI) and x.ai (Grok), so I'll have to add this exciting new one to the list.
Towards your joke, y.ai is for sale by a Chinese phone number, and it seems interest has shot up in reaction to GLM4.5! Of the rest,
Honestly my biggest takeaways are 1) Someone in China had the prescience to go on a buying spree, and 2) not a single YCombinator firm snagged one! I guess "needs YCombinator" and "has millions to spend on a vanity URL" turn out to be mututally exclusive descriptors...[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom...
[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jason-hadjioannou
[3] https://www.linkedin.com/company/q-a-i/about/
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhipu_AI