The ring of Witt vectors over a perfect valuation ring of characteristic p, often denoted A inf , plays a pivotal role in p-adic Hodge theory; for instance, Bhatt-Morrow-Scholze have recently reinterpreted and refined the crystalline comparison isomorphism by relating it to a certain A inf -valued cohomology theory. We address some basic ring-theoretic questions about A inf , motivated by analogies with two-dimensional regular local rings. For example, we show that in most cases A inf , which is manifestly not noetherian, is also not coherent. On the other hand, it does have the property that vector bundles over the complement of the closed point in Spec A inf do extend uniquely over the puncture; moreover, a similar statement holds in Huber's category of adic spaces.