I remember back in '99 when Paul Sack wrote:
> I don't think domains consisting of a single number *can* be reg'd.

except for x.org

(but from what I understand, it was grandafathered...)

Actually, a quick search[1] yileds six ?.(com|net|edu|org) domains:

i.net
q.com
q.net
x.com
x.org
z.com

                Matt

[1]

#!/bin/sh
for sub in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
do
        echo $sub
        for suf in com org net edu
        do
                name=$sub.$suf 
                if [ ! -e $name ]
                then
                        whois $sub.$suf > $sub.$suf
                fi
        done
done
grep -L "Reserved Domain" ?.???

# ( you probably need a sleep 1 somewhere in there, as NSI gets
# suspicious when you do lots of serial queries.  A solution using
# nslookup is left to the reader... )

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