Wow... you're right. ;-) Here I thought they were just using "x.com"
as a cool trademark, I didn't even think they really owned it. ;-)
[and of course, I was too lazy to go looking for it].
D
At 3:56 PM -0400 9/27/00, Chuck Hatcher wrote:
>Actually, the Paypal folks already have X.com, and I'll bet ICANN/IANA can't
>take it from them. The letter Z is also registered by someone other than
>ICANN.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Derek J. Balling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jeremy Bettis"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 1:54 PM
>Subject: Re: Single letter domains
>
>
>I think his issue is that the software shouldn't reject them as a
>special case, but rather it should reject them as taken.
>
>i.e., if at 2 a.m. this morning, in a surprise announcement ICANN
>gave up the single-letter domains and released them to the pool, the
>software shouldn't reject them out of hand simply because the
>software "knows" they're taken.
>
>D
>(who would like to see X, the paypal folks, file a UDRP against ICANN
>for not surrendering x.com, since they're not holding it in good
>faith, and are cybersquatting on it)
>
>
>
>At 11:51 AM -0400 9/27/00, Charles Daminato wrote:
>>Single letter domain names are reserved by ICANN so you cannot attempt to
>>register them (even though some are actually taken).
>>
>>Charles Daminato
>>OpenSRS Support Manager
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Jeremy Bettis wrote:
>>
>>> When I attempt a registration of a.com I get this error:
>>>
>>> Invalid domain syntax for a.com (Invalid domain format (try
>>>something similar to "yourname.com")
>>>
>>> Shouldn't I get the error: "Domain already reserved"? I know that
>>>these are all taken, but they are legal domain names, for instance
>>>x.com is a real site.
>>> --
>>> Jeremy Bettis -- Hickman-Kenyon Systems, Inc.
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
