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Not so bad!?! If my house value plummeted 30% in nine years that would make me furious.
The “real” value of goods doesn’t change just because the value of currency changes. You’d be much more upset at 30% deflation, which is why there are inflation targets.
I worked at Network Solutions more than 20 years ago (before the Verisign merger) and the lore they shared with me was that when the Domain Name System was first created they didn’t know if it would scale and reserved the single-letter domains (except the few that had already been registered) in case they needed to partition the namespace – like putting Microsoft under .m.i.com or maybe .f.t.com
Nearly every single letter .com was registered by an Jon Postel who didn't want corporations to own the commercial rights to single letters.
All single octet length top level domain (TLD) names are reserved.
Should the root zone ever get very large, there are technical
solutions involving referral to servers providing splits of the zone
based on the first name octet, which would be eased by having the
single byte TLDs available. In addition, these provide a potential
additional axis for DNS expansion. For like reasons, it is
recommended that within TLD zones or indeed within any zone that is
or might become very large, in the absence of a strong reason to the
contrary, all single octet names be reserved.
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Nearly every single letter .com was registered by an Jon Postel who didn't want corporations to own the commercial rights to single letters.
Do you have a citation for that?. I found a source for my claim above: All single octet length top level domain (TLD) names are reserved. Should the root zone ever get very large, there are technical solutions involving referral to servers providing splits of the zone based on the first name octet, which would be eased by having the single byte TLDs available. In addition, these provide a potential additional axis fo…
"Before the current reserved name policy was imposed in 1993, Jon Postel (under the IANA function) took steps to reserve all available single character letters and numbers at the second level for future extensibility of the Internet (see 20 May 1994 email from Jon Postel, https://web.archive.org/web/20100301054658/http://ops.ietf.o...)"
Although I can't find off hand where he said about the corporations but I do vaguely remember reading that at some time as well, may be wrong on that specific point though.
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Do you have a citation for that?. I found a source for my claim above: All single octet length top level domain (TLD) names are reserved. Should the root zone ever get very large, there are technical solutions involving referral to servers providing splits of the zone based on the first name octet, which would be eased by having the single byte TLDs available. In addition, these provide a potential additional axis fo…
https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-establi... "Before the current reserved name policy was imposed in 1993, Jon Postel (under the IANA function) took steps to reserve all available single character letters and numbers at the second level for future extensibility of the Internet (see 20 May 1994 email from Jon Postel, https://web.archive.org/web/20100301054658/http://ops.ietf.o... )" Although I can't…
https://web.archive.org/web/20030614022228/http://ops.ietf.o...
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https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-establi... "Before the current reserved name policy was imposed in 1993, Jon Postel (under the IANA function) took steps to reserve all available single character letters and numbers at the second level for future extensibility of the Internet (see 20 May 1994 email from Jon Postel, https://web.archive.org/web/20100301054658/http://ops.ietf.o... )" Although I can't…
The email doesn’t seem to me to be coming from a place of anti-corporate sentiment, but you be the judge: https://web.archive.org/web/20030614022228/http://ops.ietf.o...
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https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-establi... "Before the current reserved name policy was imposed in 1993, Jon Postel (under the IANA function) took steps to reserve all available single character letters and numbers at the second level for future extensibility of the Internet (see 20 May 1994 email from Jon Postel, https://web.archive.org/web/20100301054658/http://ops.ietf.o... )" Although I can't…
The email doesn’t seem to me to be coming from a place of anti-corporate sentiment, but you be the judge: https://web.archive.org/web/20030614022228/http://ops.ietf.o...
> Only three of the 26 possible single-letter domains have ever been registered under the .com domain, all before 1992. The other 23 single-letter .com domain names were registered January 1, 1992 by Jon Postel, with the intention to avoid a single company commercially controlling a letter of the alphabet.
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The email doesn’t seem to me to be coming from a place of anti-corporate sentiment, but you be the judge: https://web.archive.org/web/20030614022228/http://ops.ietf.o...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843663 > Only three of the 26 possible single-letter domains have ever been registered under the .com domain, all before 1992. The other 23 single-letter .com domain names were registered January 1, 1992 by Jon Postel, with the intention to avoid a single company commercially controlling a letter of the alphabet.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843663 > Only three of the 26 possible single-letter domains have ever been registered under the .com domain, all before 1992. The other 23 single-letter .com domain names were registered January 1, 1992 by Jon Postel, with the intention to avoid a single company commercially controlling a letter of the alphabet.
That’s just a quote of a sentence from Wikipedia with no citation.
"Everyone else was getting rich and these guys were trying to keep the infrastructure together," Kahle said.
And perhaps chase the Wikipedia citation to see what old article it use to quote.
Just as suspected, overwhelmingly squatted.
huh? did you read the article? Most are not available, and 2/3 of the .com ones available are being used not squatted. Almost all the .org ones are being used for relevant branding, not squatted. Not until you get into .co does there seems to be some squatting.
Just as suspected, overwhelmingly squatted.
huh? did you read the article? Most are not available, and 2/3 of the .com ones available are being used not squatted. Almost all the .org ones are being used for relevant branding, not squatted. Not until you get into .co does there seems to be some squatting.
its an honest mistake, please forgive me.