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ICANN Considers Single Letter Domains
* * Beatles-Beatles writes "...as the Internet's key oversight agency considers lifting restrictions on the simplest of names. In response to requests by companies seeking to extend their brands, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will chart a course for single-letter Web addresses as early as this weekend, when the ICANN board meets in Vancouver, British Columbia. Those names could start to appear next year."
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John
So MX on these domains won't be very useful?
He's going to post all Beatles Beatles stories to spite us.
how.r.u ?
.b confusing, .a?
This could
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
does this put tinyurl out of business?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I actually take the time to read a side-dispute over a submitter's reasons for submitting, then blow it off as something that doesn't really interest me.
Then suddenly it seems like he's popping up left and right. It's like something out of a low-grade horror movie. To make matters worse, someone nearby keeps blasting Beatles tunes from their cubicle - not even the good ones. I half expect an undead George Harrison to start clawing at my bedroom window tonight.
Do not confuse "Freedom of Choice" with "Free Will".
The wuss domain was already claimed by an unknown US government official with a speech impediment and delusions of grandeur.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
So what if they are available to the wealthy only. It's not likes it food or some other necessity like healthcare. It's just a damn URL. And it's only 26 domain names. The other trillion billion are available to the poor. Good to see the Slashdot crowd worried about the little people though.
gasmonso http://religiousfreaks.com/We'll know it's really Taco in disguise once he starts posting duplicates.
The next Cmdr Taco duplicate will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
First dupe post fromt he future -
Of course, 1 is going to go for big bucks - "We're #1".7 also - "Lucky us".
Avis will buy #2 - "We're #2 - we try harder"
3 will be bought out as a business portal - "3's company"
4 will be some scam - "trust us - we work 4 u" - or some golf site - "fore!"
9 will be sold to some kraut anti-drug campaign - "just say 9/nein"
8 will go to weight-watchers or slimfast - "8 too much?"
5 will go to whoever looses the bid for 1 - they''ll then say "5 - we're the quintiscential site" or some other loser shit
6 will go to an online redneck pharmacy - "when you'se feeling six as a dawg, order your meds from 6.com"
0, of course, will be the big one. The BIGGEST sex portal - "come to 0.com - because you can't get any lower than us"
Remember - watch for it next year
tt
Well, I guess the real question is: How much did 3.com pay them?
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
By the time I get to the 'o' in c-o-m, my fingers are about plumbt-tuckered out!
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
Consider http://k.de/ :P
"All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
I hate to be pedantic, but 'cd' is not a command. Its a shell builtin.
It was hilarious when a coworker tried to do 'sudo cd some_directory_with_strong_permissions', and was asking me why it wasn't working. What's scarier, is that she had sudo access. What's even more scary, is that she eventually took my job after I left.
Come, everyone wants 127.0.0.1.org
Imagine having just a single character as the whole domain name though - no TLD, just a single letter!
That would open up *thousands* of new possiblilies for domain names...
Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.
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jleq.com, bitchezzzzzzzzzz
perhaps my counting is wrong, but I'm pretty sure it would only open up 26...
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