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jroy
04-24-2004, 03:34 PM
I thought there were no 1 character domains?

MatthewN
04-24-2004, 03:45 PM
I cant think of any. What makes you ask?

Postmaster
04-24-2004, 03:47 PM
Mate theres even a www.com try and see

markjut
04-24-2004, 04:03 PM
I thought it had to be at least 3

MatthewN
04-24-2004, 04:08 PM
Originally posted by Postmaster
Mate theres even a www.com try and see

There's also a www.www.com :D

jroy
04-24-2004, 05:10 PM
http://i.net

its got to be worth $500,000

tazd9t9
04-24-2004, 05:14 PM
well you can get 2 letter or at least you used to be able to www.bt.com www.aa.com etc maybe it was pre the new rules? Im not too sure on the TLD rules tbh
you cant have 2 letter uk names but you could pre- nominet and anyone who had them then still has them ie bt.co.uk

Postmaster
04-24-2004, 05:21 PM
Yes this is true.... non, 1 and 2 character domains were allowed to be registered before but not anymore.... Maybe there exceptions for buissness also the .coms, nets and .orgs are all taken anyway..

jroy
04-24-2004, 05:25 PM
i dont think there are no other 1 character domains though

PCplayground
04-24-2004, 06:23 PM
Originally posted by jroy
i dont think there are no other 1 character domains though

Paypal still owns "x.com"

www.x.com

x.org is also registered.

jroy
04-24-2004, 06:41 PM
i stand corrected

Bashar
04-24-2004, 07:02 PM
infact there are 6 only
Qwest www.q.com
PayPal www.x.com used to offer $20/year mailboxes before paypal bought it
Nissan www.z.com (i had big@z.com when it was free portal :P before nissan bought it)
Future Media Architects www.i.net Kuwaiti ;)
unknown site/owner www.q.net
the X Foundation www.x.org

rumor said domains droped by mistake and those owners registered them and they are not allowed to sell the domain.
so new owners bought the old companies owning the domain to own them.

but sure how accurate this story is but thats what i heared :)

jroy
04-24-2004, 07:06 PM
dam theyre lucky, am i right saying they are worth $500,000?

Bashar
04-24-2004, 07:13 PM
easily, its fancy domains :) i wont mind having k.net just to showoff :P

jroy
04-24-2004, 07:24 PM
yeah, me too, but id be more interested in i.com or e.com

PCplayground
04-24-2004, 07:24 PM
Originally posted by jroy
dam theyre lucky, am i right saying they are worth $500,000?

No, I think that price is an underestimate of their value.

jroy
04-24-2004, 07:25 PM
bashar agrees with me

Bashar
04-24-2004, 08:50 PM
would you pay $500K for internet.com or i.com ?

it really depends :D men.com sold for 3 times more, act.com sold for $500K

it really depends on the name.

PCplayground
04-24-2004, 09:38 PM
Originally posted by Bashar
would you pay $500K for internet.com or i.com ?

it really depends :D men.com sold for 3 times more, act.com sold for $500K

it really depends on the name.

I am just going off my the law of supply and demand. The lower the supply the higher the demand.

There are only a FEW 1 letter domains out of the millions of domains in existence.

snoop
04-24-2004, 11:32 PM
Originally posted by jroy
dam theyre lucky, am i right saying they are worth $500,000?

I think they would struggle to get that sort of price, especially the non .com ones. Look at the current usage of those domains, just redirects or relatively small sites.

jroy
04-25-2004, 12:03 AM
google is not a small site!!

but yeah i see what you mean, they could be worth more than $500,000

snoop
04-25-2004, 03:43 AM
Originally posted by jroy
google is not a small site!!



since when did google decide to move to a one character domain? I type in "google.com".

jroy
04-25-2004, 10:16 AM
Originally posted by snoop
Look at the current usage of those domains, just redirects or relatively small sites.

oh, my bad, i thought you had said just redirects to relatively small sites