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

[Roberto Gaetano]

That was my understanding from John Klensin's argumentation.
Nowadays, with the density of names we have, thanks ;>) also to domain
tasting, it has become very difficult to be able to misspell a name and get
a 404 message :<(
So, I really don't know how much this objection still holds for one-char
SLDs.
Another interesting issue is that I see likely to happen that we will have
IDN SLDs with one symbol (for instance, for chinese script - Hong, please
correct me if I am saying silly things). So to have the restriction for some
scripts but not for others might raise additional questions.

Cheers,
Roberto


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Peake [mailto:ajp at glocom.ac.jp] 
> Sent: 19 October 2007 07:22
> To: Roberto Gaetano
> Cc: alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> Subject: Re: [At-Large] [AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN Establishes 
> Forum onAllocation Methods for Single-letter and Single-digit 
> Domain Names
> 
> 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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