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

[Roberto Gaetano]

One of the arguments against the one-letter domains was related to
mistyping. Once upon a time, when domain names were "sparse" in relation to
all possible permutations of the letters of the alphabet, the chance of
hitting a wrong domain name by mistyping one character was very low (this is
less and less true today). The argumentation by John Klensin was that if we
allow one letter domain names, you are sure to land on a different domain by
mistyping one character (because it is the only one!), and this is a
stability concern.
 
I report this only for the sake of historical completeness, without
judgement on the merit.
 
Cheers,
Roberto
 


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From: alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org
[mailto:alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Bret Fausett
Sent: 18 October 2007 17:04
To: At-Large writ small
Subject: Re: [At-Large] [AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN Establishes Forum
onAllocation Methods for Single-letter and Single-digit Domain Names


On Oct 18, 2007, at 7:20 AM, Adam Peake wrote:

Perhaps ICANN should auction off the rest of the ascii alphabet and

use the cash


For the sake of argument, on what right would ICANN claim that money as its
own? ICANN placed a restriction on single-letter TLDs once upon a time on
the theory that the letters might be needed at some future time for
expansion of the TLD space (i.e., that we might have, amazon.a.com,
amazon.b.com, amazon.c.com, etc.). So if that need no longer exists, and the
restriction can be removed, why do the auction profits go to ICANN and not
the registry and registrar?

-- Bret

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