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Letter to ICANN

I read the letter and "intimidating" is definitely the wrong word. Besides, Yahoo i.e. wrote a letter in a similar fashion to ICANN as well.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Rubenarslan (talk • contribs) 12:43, July 6, 2007

The article doesn't go on to say if U Magazine was successful or not in 'jumping the queue'. Does anyone know? -- œ ^™ 22:27, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently not, because the ICANN has not auctioned off the single-letter domains yet. 98.232.147.24 (talk) 08:36, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Overloaded?

In the second paragraph, "This was done in case the registries for these domains became overloaded." Can someone replace that with a clearer explanation? I have no idea what it means for domains to become overloaded, or why having single-letter second-level names would make them so. —Largo Plazo (talk) 16:18, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

IIRC, the theory was that if they became overloaded, they could replace each server with 26 new ones -- one for each letter of the alphabet. So you could have, say google.a.com or answers.j.com. --Wulf (talk) 05:13, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What about x.se?

www.x.se - domain redirect service. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.231.37.186 (talk) 09:40, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If we included ccTLDs, we would have a much, much longer list, as many ccTLDs don't restrict one- or two-letter domains at all - so in theory, any combination would be possible! j.mp is another "short URL"-style service with a one-letter domain. That's why I'm removing g.cn - it really doesn't make sense to attempt to compile all the possible one-letter ccTLDs, and it was added without discussing it here first. 98.232.147.24 (talk) 08:41, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

x.com

seems to be a paypal venture now. since June. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.254.85.59 (talk) 15:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This has now been added. --Cyberjacob (talk) 22:28, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

vw.de

What is “vw.de”? --88.78.12.203 (talk) 16:59, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"VW" is the name of the (largest?) German car manufacturer (of Beetle, Golf, etc) - the full name is Volkswagen, but the short from VW is what is really used. vw.de redirects to www.volkswagen.de Volker Siegel (talk) 14:09, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

g.cn

g.cn redirects the google.cn, the Chinese Google homepage. Inductiveload (talk) 16:49, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sources/References

This is a problem, the article has just one reference. I googled around, looking for an official announcement from 1993 but found none. I did find a mention of it being released on official ftp server at the ICCAN wiki, but no success in accessing it myself.

Anyone care to help? Lulzmango (talk) 10:48, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]