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Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages
- colinprince 11y agofrom the terms.html: JS.ORG may also terminate the provision of a certain or all subdomains. Concerned users will be notified at least 7 days in advance by an issue in their GitHub repository
- trothamel 11y agoI don't know how much a two-letter domain is worth, but I suspect it's a lot. Trusting the current owner is fine, but should something happen to him, the domain might be considered an asset to be sold off, at which point hosting will end.
- rattray 11y agoThanks, anonymous hero... actually, who owns/provides this? The only credit I can see is for the web design.
- laurent123456 11y agoI wonder how they managed to get such a short domain name, I thought 3 characters was the minimum. And it must cost quite a lot.
- zuck9 11y agoThe minimum is 1 character excluding the TLD. Like Twitter has http://t.co http://t.co
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- killwhitey 11y agoActually even zero character ones exist http://uz/ http://uz/
- mahouse 11y agoIt does not resolve here.
- RubyPinch 11y agoInteresting side-effect, windows doesn't support TLD-only addresses. .monash used to also have the same property (if I am not mistaken), until they realized this fact, I imagine.
- BillinghamJ 11y agoThat isn't a zero character name. It's just the TLD itself acting as a website. It's a 1 label domain rather than the usual 2-3 labels.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoWell, I suppose the root counts as a zero-character domain. The trailing . makes it fully-qualified.
- calebegg 11y agoIt only works for me (OS X, Safari) when written as http://uz./ http://uz./ (a proper FQDN)
- veb 11y agoI'd be pretty interested to see how much a domain like this would sell for...
- ipp 11y agoThere's a lot of 2-letter domains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_domain#Two-letter_domain_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom... Single-letter domains for .org, .net, and .com are/were reserved, although there are exceptions such as http://www.x.org http://www.x.org. Other TLDs may vary.
- Pirate-of-SV 11y agoFor those who are looking for short domains .SE is selling a few at the moment. http://www.tradera.com/campaign/punktse http://www.tradera.com/campaign/punktse
- Buge 11y agoIt's actually easy to get a 2 character name if you are willing to use an obscure tld. I own http://0k.nu http://0k.nu and I just regularly registered it. I also own http://π.pw http://π.pw and http://ಠ.com http://ಠ.com .
- zuck9 11y agoStefan Keim: https://github.com/indus https://github.com/indus Source: https://github.com/js-org https://github.com/js-org
- rattray 11y agoCool, thanks for finding that. And thank you, Stefan!
- batuhanicoz 11y agoThey list the owner in the legal information page: http://dns.js.org/legals.html http://dns.js.org/legals.html
- switch007 11y agohttp://dns.js.org/legals.html http://dns.js.org/legals.html is linked under the title 'Impressum/Legals' and has owner details (as required by German law, I believe)
- AC__ 11y agoA few others have already responded, the sites whois entry also names Stefan Keim.
- jsorg 11y agoThats my brothers homepage/business. He helped mé with the design and asked me for the backlink.
- lukebennett 11y agoI've often thought a .js TLD would be useful but given it would be dependent on a new country being formed and taking that as its ISO country code, I guess it's unlikely. So perhaps this is the next best thing. Though would be nice to have a bit more transparency about who is behind it.
- catshirt 11y ago"given it would be dependent on a new country being formed and taking that as its ISO country code, I guess it's unlikely" is that true anymore?
- lukebennett 11y agoI think so - ICANN prohibit the creation of 2-letter TLDs. From http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faqs/faqs-en http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faq...: 2.12 Can a New gTLD name be 2 letters? Applied-for gTLD strings in ASCII must be composed of three or more visually distinct characters. Two-character ASCII strings are not permitted, to avoid conflicting with current and future country-codes based on the ISO 3166-1 standard.
- catshirt 11y agoah, right ok. thanks!
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- pavlov 11y agoIt doesn't have to be an independent country, autonomous regions also get 2-letter TLDs. So all it takes is for Brazil to declare Jaraguá do Sul [1] an autonomous city-state. The local government can then apply for the .js TLD and start getting rich by selling domains to developers. Simple as pie! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaraguá_do_Sul http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaraguá_do_Sul
- niix 11y agoI think a js.org email would be pretty rad also.
- jsorg 11y ago40 pull-requests in 6 hours. This will be long night for me... Starting to merge in 5 minutes (after a cigarette)
- zuck9 11y agoAmazing how you posted this twice earlier but didn't get attention.