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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.<br>
So giving possibility to someone to sell subdomain under a one digit
domain name is like ccTLD who are selling .com.uk for example. We will
have <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.mysite.e.net">www.mysite.e.net</a> or <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.company.c.com">www.company.c.com</a> and others.<br>
I think that the best is to use the same method to allocate a new gTLD
or sTLD licence by giving a license to ONLY one entity that will sell
to registrat and to registrar what they want of sub-domain under what
ever single-digit and PAY contribution to ICANN for each sub-domain.
Maybe this contribution should be less than the one payed for a domain
name.<br>
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Anne-Rachel Inné wrote:
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<p class="title">ICANN Establishes Forum on Allocation Methods for
Single-letter and Single-digit
Domain Names</p>
<p class="docdate">16 October 2007</p>
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<p>As recommended by the GNSO Council, ICANN is commencing a forum on
potential allocation methods for single-letter and single-digit domain
names at the second level in gTLD registries. Examples include <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://a.com">a.com</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://i.info">i.info</a>, 4.mobi, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://8.org">8.org</a>. Since revenue
will result from this allocation, comments regarding the potential
uses for this revenue are also requested.</p>
<p>ICANN intends to synthesize responses to the forum and present
proposed methods for allocation of single-letter and single-digit
domain names at the second level for community consideration. </p>
<p>To be considered by ICANN, ideas on potential allocation methods
should be submitted no later than 23:59 UTC, 15 November 2007 to <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:allocationmethods@icann.org">allocationmethods@icann.org</a>.
Comments may be viewed at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/allocationmethods/">http://forum.icann.org/lists/allocationmethods/</a>.
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<p>The GNSO Council asked ICANN to initiate a forum on this issue
after considering a report of the Council's Reserved Names Working
Group (RN-WG), which recommended that "single letters and digits be
released at the second level in future gTLDs, and that those currently
reserved in existing gTLDs should be released. This release should be
contingent upon the use of appropriate allocation frameworks. More work
may be needed. In future gTLDs we recommend that single letters and
single digits be available at the second (and third level if
applicable)." The GNSO is one of ICANN's primary stakeholder-populated
policy making bodies. The recommendations of the RN-WG can be found at <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://gnso.icann.org/issues/new-gtlds/final-report-rn-wg-23may07.pdf">http://gnso.icann.org/issues/new-gtlds/final-report-rn-wg-23may07.pdf</a>
[PDF, 713K].</p>
<p><strong>Background</strong></p>
<p>Currently, all 16 gTLD registry agreements (.AERO, .ASIA, .BIZ,
.CAT, .COM, .COOP, .INFO, .JOBS, .MOBI, .MUSEUM, .NAME, .NET, .ORG,
.PRO, .TEL, and .TRAVEL) provide for the reservation of single-letter
and single-digit names at the second level. ICANN's gTLD registry
agreements contain the following provision on single-letter and
single-digit names. See Appendix 6 of the .TEL Registry Agreement, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/tel/appendix-6-07apr06.htm">http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/tel/appendix-6-07apr06.htm</a>
("the following names shall be reserved at the second-level: All
single-character labels.").</p>
<p>Letters, numbers and the hyphen symbol are allowed within second
level names in both top level and country code TLDs. Single letters and
numbers also are allowed as IDNs -- as single-character Unicode
renderings of ASCII compatible (ACE) forms of IDNA valid strings.</p>
<p>Before the current reserved name policy was imposed in 1993, Jon
Postel (under the IANA function) took steps to reserve all available
single character letters and numbers at the second level for future
extensibility of the Internet (see 20 May 1994 email from Jon Postel, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.199x/msg01156.html">http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.199x/msg01156.html</a>).
All but six (<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://q.com">q.com</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://x.com">x.com</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://z.com">z.com</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://i.net">i.net</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://q.net">q.net</a>, and <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://x.org">x.org</a>
) of the possible 144 single letters or numbers at the second-level in
.COM, .EDU, .NET and .ORG remain reserved by IANA. Those six
registrations are an exception to the reservation practice. Under
current practice, these names would be placed on reserve if the
registrations were allowed to expire.</p>
<p>The RN-WG carefully considered technical implications of releasing
single-letter and single-digit domain names from reservation, and
engaged in discussions with technical experts as the working group
recommendations were being developed.</p>
<p>There are currently 265 TLDs in the root zone (19 gTLDs and 246
ccTLDs). Although nearly all single-letter and single-digit domain
names are reserved in gTLDs, 24% of ccTLDs (60) have at least one
single-character name registration. According to IANA, out of 9540
possible combinations of single-character ASCII names (containing 26
letters, 10 numbers, but not symbols, across 265 TLDs), 1225
delegations of single-character ASCII names exist in the TLD zones (See
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-rn-wg/msg00039.html">http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-rn-wg/msg00039.html</a>).
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<p>ICANN has received many inquiries from third parties seeking to
register single-letter and single-digit domain names, and has advised
these parties that the names are reserved. Through the establishment of
the public forum described above, ICANN is following its bottom-up,
multi-stakeholder model to develop suitable allocation mechanisms for
the release of single-letter and single-digit domain names as
recommended by the GNSO working group.</p>
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