One letter domains has the same issue as many of the gTLDs, they aren't particularly useful in terms of brand recognition. X.com is pretty stupid as well, you can't meaningfully use it as a brand. Take bob.builders, it's a perfectly valid domain, but if you see it on the back of a van, even if it's www.bob.builders, it's not recognizably as a website. www.b.com has the exact same problem, even x.com / www.x.com is ju…
X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
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#23I have far less confidence that x.com links will continue to work for years than twitter.com links.
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#24I don’t like the letter “x” being used as a company name, I find it impractical and confusing. I’d like to call it something different, and since many people say “x/twitter”, I guess others have similar thoughts. I’m not unhappy that there are few other single letter domains, especially if they were to be claimed by corporations.
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#25Tangent but > This seems weird as the domain was sold in 2014 for 6.8M USD, which would be around 8.9M USD today taking inflation into account. Caught my attention, 30% inflation in just 9 years...
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#26Wow, http://g.org is weird. Wonder what the story behind it is.
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#27f.org’s terms of service are worth a read. https://f.org/?page=rv
Coincidence ?
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#28I don’t like the letter “x” being used as a company name, I find it impractical and confusing. I’d like to call it something different, and since many people say “x/twitter”, I guess others have similar thoughts. I’m not unhappy that there are few other single letter domains, especially if they were to be claimed by corporations.
You can just call it Twitter, in the same way that everyone just says Facebook rather than Meta and Google rather than Alphabet.
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#29Wow, http://g.org is weird. Wonder what the story behind it is.
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#30I remember around 1999 when I used to work for a big ISP and I ran a simple perl script that would "nslookup" all combination of 3 letters domains. It generated a huge list of available domains, but none that called my attention because all the good ones (not just random letters) seemed to be already registered. I would never thought that all those random 3 letter domains would sell for so much money many years later…
Being an obdurate domain squatter would have been a successful strategy. All the things I thought would have been too stupid to work seems to have been very profitable
Someone else made a comparison to phone numbers which turned out to be accurate. Simple sells.