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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. Please don't bother by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    posting that this is Beatles-Beatles again. We don't care.

  2. Single-letter domains by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, ICANN - This post brought to you by the web sites "f" and "u"

    Sheesh, anything for a buck. If I had known that to make it big on the net, all you had to do was act like a cheap hooker ...

    tt

  3. LMAO by porkThreeWays · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is this a big joke? Is Beatles Beatles some sort of fictious character they came up with to post stories they find on their own? Stop the madness! He IS mocking us~!!

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  4. Re:But they already exist by 6*7 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    [mod redudant here]

    You didn't RTFA, did you?

  5. Re:Now Taco is mocking us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, this is Taco's first one today.
    The other Beatles Beatles entry was posted by someone else.

  6. Re:So who gets them? Sesame street? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This posting brought to you by the domains "F" and "U".,
     
    Nice flame. Go to this site Single Letter Domains For Free

  7. Re:But they already exist by slavemowgli · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Strange question, considering that this is Slashdot. :)

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  8. Re:slashdot.o ? by MikeFM · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    f.u!

    Can I register that?

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  9. * * Beatles-Beatles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm recycling a comment from another another AC :

    I'm recycling a comment from another AC in another Scuttlemonkey/**Beatles-Beatles post. This guy's getting worse than Roland Picklepail:

    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.

  10. It's not about respect! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's just sex. It has nothing to do with respect.