On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 12:42:43PM +0000, Drew Weaver wrote: > Does anyone have any historical information on how 'x.com' came to be > registered even though single letters were reserved? > > Is there a story or is it as simple as it was registered prior to the > reservation? > > Just wondering.
You are probably familiar with the reservation of single letter and digit TLDs: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-dnsind-iana-dns-01#page-15 The full names of the previous owners are listed in an archive of a crawl from 1996: http://web.archive.org/web/19961219022100/http://x.com/ One of them may be able to describe how they bought it. Mukund
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