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Originally Posted by Shoehorn!
Since when we're people not allowed to have one letter domains? One of the companies that got bought out early on by PayPal was x.com. Infact if you go there now you can see that it redirects to PayPal.
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Single-letter names under ".com," ".net" and ".org" were set aside in 1993 as engineers grew concerned about their ability to meet the expected explosion in demand for domain names. They weren't sure then whether a single database of names could hold millions ? more than 40 million in the case of ".com" today.
Six single-letter names already claimed at the time ? "q.com," "x.com, "z.com," "i.net," "q.net," and "x.org" ? were allowed to keep their names for the time being.