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Just checked, and of all the single-letter domains, only u.com and z.com are being used.
by Moshe_Silnorin 9y ago
Just checked, and of all the single-letter domains, only u.com and z.com are being used.
- gboudrias 9y agoSeems like a huge waste, huh?
- nomel 9y agoHrmm, I tried a whois for a few (a, g, t, e) and they're just not registered: "organisation: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority". Is IANA sitting on them? edit: Oh, from the wiki [1]: "In 1993, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) explicitly reserved all single-letter and single-digit second-level domain names in the top-level domains com, net, and org, and grandfathered those that had already been assigned." "...with the intention to avoid a single company commercially controlling a letter of the Alphabet." Oops. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom...
- PhasmaFelis 9y ago> "...with the intention to avoid a single company commercially controlling a letter of the Alphabet." Authorities taking steps against undue corporate control of the internet. It's almost quaint today.
- icebraining 9y agoIt was still Postel's IANA. I'm sure current ICANN would be a very different organization if he was still at the helm.
- djsumdog 9y agoYep, was going to mention that but it seems you found it. Musk got his x domain grandfathered in.
- OJFord 9y agou.com doesn't resolve for me? Funny that z.com redirects to trade.z.com - it's like, someone realised that actually, a single letter is too short to build a brand. If we weren't excited by silly things like single letter domain names, x.com could be owned by whoever makes the 'xcom' game, and it would just be a mildly 'good' or amusing domain name, like when .io, .sh, .ly, etc. work out particularly well.