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I was admin of a country code ccTLD once (let's call it .xx) and I created aliases and a forward for 'i' to my inbox. and put a 5 minute MX record on it. From a shell elsewhere in the world I sent email to i@xx ...

And it arrived! The shortest fully qualified email address in the world!

Against policy tho. I took out the MX record. It was a fun nerd moment.



Reminds me of n@ai ﹣ Goes to someone named Ian.

    ∴dig ai MX
    
    ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> ai MX
    ;; global options: +cmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40166
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
    
    ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
    ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;ai.    IN MX
    
    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    ai.   3600 IN MX 10 mail.offshore.ai.
    
    ;; Query time: 5 msec
    ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
    ;; WHEN: Sun Jul 07 17:19:47 PDT 2024
    ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 63


Ian Goldberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Goldberg)


> Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, was a research assistant of Goldberg while a student at the University of Waterloo

dang. i hope he invested


ha! makes sense.

I know who Ian Goldberg is, but didn't associate them with n@ai.




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