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ICANN Considers Single Letter Domains

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everybody-wants-to-be-a-vowel dept.

* * 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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  1. So who gets them? Sesame street? by plover · · Score: 5, Funny

    This posting brought to you by the domains "F" and "U".

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  2. Single "Letter" Domains by Nightreaver · · Score: 3, Funny

    So MX on these domains won't be very useful?

  3. Now Taco is mocking us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's going to post all Beatles Beatles stories to spite us.

  4. slashdot.o ? by saskboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    how.r.u ?

    This could .b confusing, .a?

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  5. tinyurl? by circletimessquare · · Score: 3, Funny

    does this put tinyurl out of business?

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  6. It's amazing... by LithiumX · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:It's amazing... by Dirtside · · Score: 3, Funny
      I half expect an undead George Harrison to start clawing at my bedroom window tonight.
      Let's see... uh, no, you're next Tuesday, tonight George is scheduled to terrify a pensioner in Bristol. Sorry about the mix-up.
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  7. Re:LMAO by ptomblin · · Score: 4, Funny

    We'll know it's really Taco in disguise once he starts posting duplicates.

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  8. Next in the news - Single Digit by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Funny

    First dupe post fromt he future -

    November 29th, 2006

    Today ICANN announced that they will free up single-digit domains. They expect to make millions off the sale of the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
    <p>When asked for comment about ICANN's new single-digit policy, one slashdotter said "Let them sit on THIS single digit and rotate!"
    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

  9. Re:Only 26 by chris_eineke · · Score: 3, Funny

    Consider http://k.de/ :P

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  10. Re:But they already exist by Gordonjcp · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...