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I was not aware that 1 character domains where possible until now. I wonder why they are restricted in most main TLDs.
by drsintoma 13y ago
I was not aware that 1 character domains where possible until now. I wonder why they are restricted in most main TLDs.
- artursapek 13y agoTwitter uses t.co
- neya 13y agoI guess it's all about the money. The fact the amazon could afford it and I nor you couldn't explains it better, I guess.
- mikeevans 13y agoI'm not sure about any others except Google uses g.co for shortening their own URLs. Edit: And Twitter uses t.co
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- kijeda 13y agoIANA blocked registration of most of them under gTLDs (.COM, .NET, etc.) in 1993, on the thought they may be useful to support extensibility of the DNS down the track. Country-code operators have typically followed that lead as good practice. As they were never really used for that purpose, slowly but surely they have been released into circulation. The applications by registry operators to lift the one- and two-letter domain restrictions are at http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registries/rsep http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registries/rsep
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- RKearney 13y agoA TLD can have an A record, so in theory you could have a "0 character" domain. You could also use it for email, so a@co would be a valid email address if co. had an A or MX record associated with it.
- swalkergibson 13y agoI have always wondered about x.com and how they got that domain. Does anyone around here know?
- secabeen 13y agoThey registered it just before Postrel stopped handing those out. X11 has X.org.
- rz2k 13y agoYou can have zero character domain names. Briefly trying out a few of the country TLDs, the one for Anguilla works: http://ai http://ai. the trialing dot is not needed but helps tell your browser not to try to expand it further. Many TLDs do not resolve, though many others resolve to the TLD's registrar's site.