One letter domains. You can't register them?
 

Lol, never tried it, but I saw you couldn't register a.com or b.com because it gives back BAD syntax.

www.a.com
www.b.com

nothing work BUT

www.x.com works(and leads to paypal)

How is that possible?

Andre

i know that with godaddy you actually have to look up who owns an ordinary domain before you can look at the single letter or even 2 letter domains.

Conspiracy.

Well what I don't get is, all 1 letter domains are locked by

RESERVED-INTERNET ASSIGNED NUMBERS AUTHORITY


except x.com which is registred by paypal

Andre

did ya know you can have www.com
strange but true :glugglug

what's weird about it? www.www.com

x.com was originally an online bank that's obviously now defunct

Wrong they were bought or merged with paypal.

I remember when that happened, I wondered who came up with a gay name like "PayPal".

One-letter domains were allowed, once in ancient times. They have since been disallowed, but the ones that still existed were "grandfathered".

Damn:) I wanted a.com and x.com :)

Andre

which would mean the bank is defunct as x.com is no longer a bank

actually this is a good question. In 1993 Jon Postel registered most of the single letter domains and dedicated them to the public domain. Only 4 of the domains were already registered out of 144~ he registered.

x.com was one of those all ready registered. and was grandfathered in which is which is why paypal is using it.

Read this link. The first part of it should answer your question.

http://lists.elistx.com/archives/int.../msg00085.html

Thnx

Andre

I've tried to register one letter domain when I first came to the internet in 97... Since then I didn't even ask myself if they can be registered :1orglaugh

I tried too....

x.com definately used to be a bank though.... not sure if they went bust or sold out though

z dot com is cool

x.com was a bank. I used them. When they closed I had less than THREE WEEKS WARNING to close my account and find a new bank. I was PISSED.

:feels-hot

Fuck man, most people here probably don't even know who Jon Postel was.