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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."
Six single-letter names already claimed at the time _ "q.com," "x.com, "z.com," "i.net," "q.net," and "x.org" _ were allowed to keep their names for the time being.
Bradley Holt
no, there are 26 letters, times the major .whatevers There's .com, .net, .org, .info, then the ones that go by country, like .co.uk or .de That makes for a lot more than 26 possibilities, but you are correct that relative to the internet as a whole, it's not a lot of domains.
FTA:
Six single-letter names already claimed at the time _ "q.com," "x.com, "z.com," "i.net," "q.net," and "x.org" _ were allowed to keep their names for the time being.
liqbase
...this does not open up top level domains, like .a or .b This is a proposal to open up something like a.com or b.com.
Yes, I realize there are a few out there, www.X.org comes to mind. Most of the single letter domains are registered to:
[whois.iana.org]
IANA Whois Service
Domain: c.com
Name: IANA_RESERVED
The article also states that IANA started reserving these in 1993, but the whois record for x.org shows it was created in 1997.
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Am I the only person who has noticed the numerous stories that get posted by *--Beatles-Beatles? Am I also the only person who has noticed that the link used in is name is a constantly changing URL (depending on the story) with pointers to various scammy sites? Is it not obvious what he's doing? He's using the awesome PageRank of slashdot do promote his sites based on searches that have the word Beatles in them.
It's a small price to pay for free advertising. Find a story, summarize it in 5 minutes, post to slashdot, and get a pagerank boost that advertisers would pay hundreds (or maybe thousands) for. (Text links on high-ranking sites is big business - just ask oreilly).
Slashdot should at least put a ref=nofollow in the links to submitters (or better yet, only link the submitter's name to his/her user page).
In closing, a quick bit of WHOIS shows that all the sites linked by **B-B are registered to Carl Fogle. Carl, cut this crap out.
My followup:
If you have a GSM phone, dial #31# before the number and it'll show up as "private" or "protected" on the recipient's caller ID. Everyone else, use *67
"Hello, please leave a message after the tone"
BEEP
Googling for his phone number brings up a lot of information. Apparently he's in the search engine optimization business and has been spamming for a long time.
His website: hxxp://search-engines-web.com
Another website: hxxp://5url.com/
More website: hxxp://google-yahoo.com/
Old e-mail address: aa1a@yahoo.com
His Guestbook: http://server.scripthost.com/guestbook?harrison
Google Phonebook: C Aab
stwnewspress.com: Contact Name = A. Seo*
5url.subportal.com: Contact Name = A. Aab
Feel free to send him e-mail url55@hotmail.com
*A. Seo = A Search Engine Optimizer
very fucking clever
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
I believe it's still the case that domain names can't start with numbers. Single character number domain names would and likely won't be avialable for that reason.
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Actually it's less than you might think....
.com .edu .gov .int .mil .net and .org
.com, .net and .org are 'open' for registration so that gives you 3 x 26 = 78
.biz .info .name .pro .aero .coop and .museum
.coop and .museum) so the policies regarding registration are at the discretion of the sponsor. That leaves 4 more TLDs under the control of ICANN as far as policies go. We're up to 7 x 26 = 182
.ac .ad .ae .af .ag. .ai .al .an ......... .za .zm .zw
gTLDs -
Of those, only the
Then you've got the new TLDs;
Of those 3 are sponsored (.aero
Then there are the ccTLDs;
But the ccTLDs are under the control of a delegated agent in the country involved and the policies are once again at the discretion of the delegated agent. You've just lost the 240 x 26 which would have really bulked out those numbers.
Oh, and then you have to take away the 6 existing one letter domain names which leaves us with a grand total of new 'approved by ICANN' one letter domains of;
(7 x 26) - 6 = 176
So it's not that many....
So before being pedantic, better first check you are right.
/bin/sh. Anyway, my shell, zsh, has a manpage called zshbuiltins, and cd is listed there. Its under the builtins section of the csh shell's manpage.
I'm always right and I never lie!
Note that even if sudo successfully executed the cd command (say, by executing it in a root subshell), the intended effect will not happen (because the directory change would only happen in the subshell - which immediatly terminates afterwards -, and the original shell's current directory will not be affected).
Yup. That is why I thought it was funny. 'cd' has to either be a builtin for a shell or something you do inside of another program, chdir() is the usual case. Plus bash is not the sanest of shells for interactive use (ouch, I feel the downwards moderation already). Read the INVOCATION section if you don't believe me. Its not entirely bash's fault because it has tons of legacy junk left over from
For me, a command is something which I can type in a shell. It may execute a shell builtin, a shell function, an alias, or an executable found in the path, but in any case it's a command.
Fine. TZ=zulu is a command? Type 'which TZ' if your shell has a builtin for which.