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by maxboone 1379 days ago
It's an IP, just like 1.0.0.1 (1.1): https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/

https://1.1/

"APNIC's research group held the IP addresses 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. While the addresses were valid, so many people had entered them into various random systems that they were continuously overwhelmed by a flood of garbage traffic. APNIC wanted to study this garbage traffic but any time they'd tried to announce the IPs, the flood would overwhelm any conventional network."