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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843663 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843663 > Only three of the 26 possible single-letter domains have ever bee
by nadermx 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843663 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843663
> Only three of the 26 possible single-letter domains have ever been registered under the .com domain, all before 1992. The other 23 single-letter .com domain names were registered January 1, 1992 by Jon Postel, with the intention to avoid a single company commercially controlling a letter of the alphabet.
- raldi 3y agoThat’s just a quote of a sentence from Wikipedia with no citation.
- nadermx 3y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/19991119020612/http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/15682.html https://web.archive.org/web/19991119020612/http://www.wired.... "Everyone else was getting rich and these guys were trying to keep the infrastructure together," Kahle said. And perhaps chase the Wikipedia citation to see what old article it use to quote.