Is anyone else's company blocking the AI TLD?

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Is anyone else’s company blocking .AI domains?

I use Julia at a top 50 company by revenue for forecasting and the company blocks the .ai TLD as a way to block a majority of the unauthorized AI-driven tools. Recently, I’ve noticed more Julia packages putting their documentation behind .ai domain names, and now, I can’t access them. (A couple of examples: SymbolicRegression: julia.pysr.ai and MLJ: juliaml.ai) The exception process, as you can imagine for a company of this size, can take months and often times is just a black hole.

I’ve seen a few discussions on this, but they’re still relatively limited so I wanted to post here to get another pulse check.

thanks

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Locally build the docs from their git repositories, and email the maintainers for the doc sources if they’re not in public repos?

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no, that seems like a very stupid thing to do. The domain .ai was used before AI companies even existed. Tell them to change their policy

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Tell them to change their policy

At a big corporation? :smiley:

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Yes!

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Tell them to register the website under.si :rofl:

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OP: If your employer is unwilling to allow all .ai domains, could you ask them to allowlist the specific .ai domains that you need?

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My company has been blocking ai TLD for the past couple of years. Not a top 50 company, but significant size. Glad to know I’m not alone.

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Thanks for the replies. Wasn’t looking to solution here :smiley: But more just curious what the broader landscape is like. There is a Reddit Thread on this subject and a few other articles/support QAs, etc on this subject but the discussion still seems relatively limited.