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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. But they already exist by slavemowgli · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But these already exist, don't they? Or have I been imagining websites like http://www.x.org/ all along?

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    1. Re:But they already exist by yootje · · Score: 0, Redundant

      "Single-letter names under ".com," ".net" and ".org" were set aside in 1993 as engineers grew concerned about their ability to meet the expected explosion in demand for domain names. They weren't sure then whether a single database of names could hold millions -- more than 40 million in the case of ".com" today. 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." source

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  2. x.org by GC · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://x.org

    Enough said...

  3. FTFA by bsd4me · · Score: 0, Redundant

    FTFA:

    Single-letter names under ".com," ".net" and ".org" were set aside in 1993 ... 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.

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