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]
>>
