single-letter domains

[deckeda]

Yes, I was bored. I went looking for "www.(some letter).com" sites

There are currently three:

www.q.com resolves to Qwest

www.x.com resolves to PayPal --- has for several years

www.z.com resolves to Nissan USA's Z-car page

You may now resume whatever it was in your life you were doing.

[cp[mike]]

hmm is that it? or did u not try all of them? i wonder how much it would cost to register one of those...

[deckeda]

Well, yeah, like I said I was bored, so I went through the alphabet. I would assume that if a domain is available, it wouldn't cost any more than any other domain.

I mean, the rest went absolutely nowhere, not even "this domain for sale" placeholder sites. GoDaddy.com does domains for less than $10/yr still I think.

[4thgenaccord]

the pay pal thing is interesting.

[Accord R33]

single letter domain names go for millions of dollars

[deckeda]

Oh wow, really? Why? Who owns or controls them? I was under the impression that as long as it's available and there's no corporate conflict etc., it was fair game.

[Thomas_LX]

I read this on google like a month ago. Went looking for it but couldn't find it.
The IEEE regulates what can and can not be a domain, and until very recently they did not allow single-letter domains. I can't remember why though.

[laz]

Go to www.whois.sc and start typing from a to z

It will tell you who it is registered to, and what it resolves to.

I believe all of the letter of teh alphabet are registered.

X

[4thgenaccord]

I remember way back (AOL2.5 era) when www.disneyworld.com was a porn site. Disney paid alot of money (pocket change for them) to buy the domain to redirect it.

[deckeda]

well, for "a", whois reports:

ICANN Registrar: RESERVED-INTERNET ASSIGNED NUMBERS AUTHORITY

... Didn't check the rest; I ain't that bored.

[MikeW]

how many ppl here have a "www._your name here_.com" site?

www.michaelwood.com I didnt create it either. but it was dedicated to all the mike wood's of the world..cool huh?

[Accord R33]

I had (still have) www.lostshootingstar.com hosted on my desktop computer, but i had to reformat the computer and havnt got it back up and running yet

[Maple50175]

I had www.waynesobanek.com but my cousins serverrrr got like shutdown.

[Phempa]

www.phempa.net

I was using it as a temporary place for my site members to be redirected to when my dedicated server went down.
It's not really in use right now.... I have no idea what to do with it :?

I also have
www.deletebush.com
www.kindtorrents.com (letting a buddy run it for now)
www.shnflac.net

sometimes I'm just in the mood to buy domain names