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

[Adam Peake]

Is that a concern at the second level -- a.com, b.com, c.com?

Adam


>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
>
>
>
>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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