One letter domains

Discussion in 'Domain Names' started by bylla, May 5, 2007.

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    How is it possible that some companies have one letter domains like x.com when others are reserved by IANA like a.com?

    /Andreas
     
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  2. Zerosleep

    Zerosleep Established User

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    whao!
    i used to think that Minimum of 3 Letters are Compulsory for a Domain Name :confused:
    but that x.com seems to be something weird, it redirects me to paypal site :confused:
     
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    Because they bought it ages ago, eg. Nissan ownes Z.com. I wish I owned all the 26 L.com domains, they are worth a ton of money! If any of those 1 character domains drop, it is not possible to register them anymore
     
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    Some registries have 0 character domains. :eek:
     
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    They bought those domain before Icann stopped registering 1 and 2 letter domains. They are allowed by Icann to keep the domains.
     
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    You can still register a 2 letter domain with Enom.tv . I cuurently have Uv.tv for sale in the Sedo.com auction. High bid is only $600. For someone interested in a LL domain, this is your chance. This is a premium .tv domain, however, and has an annual registration of $1,000. Only about 1 day, 18 hours left in the auction.

    Thanks
    Frank
     
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    Yeah, Enom released those premium names, but from what I saw on their premium list, most of them were overpriced & even they had crappy names classified as "Premium"

    2-character .tv names are nice, but the $1k fee is a bit steep IMO

    How can you have a 0 character name? :confused:

    Please explain.
     
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    www(dot)ext. Like www.com
     
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    that's really weird because they have also www.www.com :|
     
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    That's not a 0 character domain, it's a 3 character LLL.com domain, www.www.com, you just don't type in the 1st "www" just like if you were to type in Google.com instead of www.google.com

    It's exactly the same domain, just without the "www" infront of it.
     
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    yeah man that's right...
     
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    lol i dont get how 0 character domains work lol - just .com or .net? but one letter domains are worth a lot - i doubt any ordinary people own any, just big companies to redirect to their own sites
     
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    I want a really short name thats cool like google - I search and search but nothing good is left :(
     
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    As mentioned in my previous post, there's no such thing as a 0 charaxter domain. See my previous post
     
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