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The shortest domain name ever

fourwings — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:18 PDT

It is nice for them to acquire g.cn. But G.com is not yet alloted for google i think. If they press g then CTRl + Enter then browser says " can't find the server at www.g.com." google registered in earlier 2003. but i saw that g.cn doesnt grabs much traffic from china - why ?

fourwings

The shortest domain name ever

theodicey — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:05:55 PST

Thanks to Datrio, I just registered stallman@g.pl and torvalds@g.pl.

theodicey

The shortest domain name ever

davethewebb — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:17:31 PST

actually, va is the shortest: www.va
not even any .com on the end: just type "va."

David
The Big Byte

davethewebb

The shortest domain name ever

philips — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:05:34 PDT

x.org is owned by the X.org Foundation

philips

The shortest domain name ever

simonmcc — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:31:19 PDT

It's no shorter than u.tv (owned by Ulster Television)

simonmcc

The shortest domain name ever

Avery — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:56:14 PDT

I have a list of these here, although the links don't work on some networks and operating systems.

[shii.org]

Avery

The shortest domain name ever

Datrio — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:03:04 PDT

Just a few days ago, the Polish news portal gazeta.pl registered g.pl, as an Google App, with the possibility of registering your own email addresses. Want to have a single-letter domain name in your email? Go register! Because you just know, that datrio@g.pl rocks.

Looks like national country-code domains aren't reserved by anyone...

Datrio

The shortest domain name ever

wtanaka — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:22:16 PDT

va. used to resolve as well. i think it had a web server running on it for a while.

wtanaka

The shortest domain name ever

David E. Weekly — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:56:37 PDT

Actually [ws] for a while was the shortest website - it turns out that gTLDs can return 'A' records directly, stunningly enough, and the operator for the Western Samoa gTLD .ws decided to do just that and put a website there. That said, most browsers got pretty confused, but the IP still resolves:

$ host ws.
ws A 63.101.245.10

David E. Weekly

The shortest domain name ever

sample032 — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:21:02 PDT

Unicode is semi-supported in domain names, so I'm sure there are thousands of other one-word Chinese domain names.

sample032

The shortest domain name ever

rebump — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:48:31 PDT

Favoritism? :) First Moffet now this!

rebump