[At-Large] [AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN Establishes Forum on Allocation Methods for Single-letter and Single-digit Domain Names

[Adam Peake]

Perhaps ICANN should auction off the rest of the ascii alphabet and 
use the cash as a trust fund for development of IDNs for languages 
communities of less developed countries (Khmer, Lao?) and for 
supporting participation (not just travel!  Translation.)  Trust 
fund, live off the interest.

How much is g.COM worth?

Or perhaps it would be illegal for ICANN to act in that way?

Adam

(not cc'ing allocationmethods at icann.org and africann at afrinic.net, 
guessing they are lists and I'm not subscribed.)


At 10:51 AM -0400 10/17/07, John L wrote:
>  > We should be convinced that the single-digit domain name will be as a
>>  business as the registries business. In fact who will buy x.com, an entity
>>  interested in selling sub-domain under the X.com ( may pron oriented site ).
>>  Who will be interested in o.com, e.com , same thing.
>
>Actually, the ones that aren't already in use most likely to be snapped up
>by large companies.  Type x.com into your browser, and you'll find that
>it's Paypal.  (Long ago, x.com was their original name).  The domain q.com
>was originally registered by a guy in Massachusetts who eventually sold it
>to Qwest, a large telephone company, because Q is their symbol on the
>stock exchange.  z.com belongs to Nissan, the car maker, which uses it to
>promote their Z series of cars.
>
>At this point, I don't see any reason to treat one or two letter names any
>differently from any other names.  This is particularly true in domains
>that allow second level IDNs since the number of single character names
>will be in the thousands.
>
>R's,
>John
>
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