{"id":34,"date":"2008-04-01T01:49:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T06:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/01\/single-letter-domains-released\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T02:22:45","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T07:22:45","slug":"single-letter-domains-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/single-letter-domains-released\/","title":{"rendered":"ICANNT announces immediate release of all single letter .com\/.net\/.org domains"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an unprecedented late-night meeting that lasted well into the early morning hours of April 1st, ICANNT members emerged from the organization headquarters in Arlington, VA with the big news: all single letter .com\/.net\/.org domain names, will be released effective today, 9:45 a.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time.<\/strong> When the clock strikes 9:45 all names will be released on a first-come, first-served basis; the price will be the standard registration fee (plus $0.25 handling fee per domain to cover ICANNT overtime costs.)<\/p>\n

Only 26 such letters, per TLD, exist on the entire Internet thus making them extremely valuable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This obviously comes as a shock<\/strong> to many domain investors and corporations like Overstock<\/a> or Yahoo!<\/a> who held high hopes of registering trademarks with “O” and “Y”, respectively before claiming the single-letter domains in a public auction, as it was announced last year<\/a>. These companies were willing to invest tens of millions of dollars in this partially untapped namespace, so far owned by literally a handful of entities, such as Quest – Q.com, Nissan – Z.com, Paypal – X.com, X Org Foundation – X.org and Thunayan Khalid AL-Ghanim (Elequa) who owns I.net.<\/p>\n

As the news came in, we rushed to inform a few influential individuals in the domain industry. Among them, Jerry Floski of Metadata Data Corp<\/em>, Andrei Dimitriev of Bulgarian Domain Exports<\/em> and Olga Hollander of Out of TIME & Space Magazine<\/em> – all of which expressed both excitement and shock at hearing the news.<\/p>\n

“At 9:45am, Internet history will re-write itself<\/em>“, Hollander said.
\n“It’s a chance for me to grab the big ‘O’ although I am sure Oprah Winfrey will be trying to register it at the same time!<\/em>“, she added.<\/p>\n

No major domain outlets have been notified yet as there will be intense competition that would enable speculators to charge hundreds of dollars in fees<\/strong>. It’s certain though that major registrars, such as eNom<\/a> and GoDaddy<\/a> will be fighting tooth and nail against Entertainment Yesterday<\/em> and Gayest Media<\/em> respectively, to secure ownership of “E.com” and “G.com”.<\/p>\n

While .com is still king<\/strong>, it is expected that the lesser .net and .org TLD’s will be registered as well within minutes of the 9:45am landrush – after all, that’s only 73 domains that in the early days of the Internet one would have hand-registered in a few hours, all while enjoying a slowly-roasted cup of java connected via Compuserve at 300bps. This time however, it will be considerably tougher to register more than one such domain via the special registration portal<\/a><\/strong> designated by the Registry.<\/p>\n

Good luck everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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