T.com on eBay

[MAllie]

I'm confused. I've been looking at eBay and I see that something called T.com has just gone for $31. That can't be the T.com, can it? If so, why all the fuss about LL, LLL and LLLL.coms?

Also, can't help being amused at the way so many domain names on eBay are listed as rare. Surely that's the nature of any domain name, that there is just the one of it in that exact format?

 

[Credit]

T.com doesn't even exist - the auction was either a scam or an IDN.

The only L.coms ever assigned are Z.com, X.com, and Q.com owned by nissan, paypal, and qwest respectively (please correct me if I'm wrong)

 

[MAllie]

Hmmmm, interesting. Does that mean someone has wasted $31? Could you tell me again exactly what an IDN is? I think it did say it was an idn name - I assumed that meant international domain name, as in that anyone can register it the way .coms, .nets, etc. are registered.

 

[PapaStiz]

International domain name, as in non-english characters. To us, we would refer to them as symbols as they don't fit in the English language, but in other languages they are the letters or symbols in the alphabet.

So long story short...nope, it was not T.com, and probably just a letter of an alphabet in a foreign language.

 

[Rubber DuckRubber Duck is verified member.]

Yes, but just to try and clear up some of the fog here.

An IDN.com is a dot Com in just the same way as any other dot Com is a dot com. It is just a character sequence that decodes to Unicode Characters which are an extended character set that covers all language scripts. The actual domain is just a sequence of ASCII or English characters for those struggling with the terminology. This is referred to as Punycode. These domains are not from planet Zog. They are dot coms pure and simple, but not all registeries support them. They are part of the Verisign registry and have the same legal status as just about everything in Frank Schillings portfolio.

 

[Theo]

Actually this April ICANNT announced the release of all single letter domains!

 

[DigiNamesDigiNames is verified member.]

for some reason I have to laugh when thinking of Oprah sitting at her computer trying to hand register O.com. :lol:

Actually this April ICANNT announced the release of all single letter domains!

 

[hecto]

well ebay is ebay...not very regulated which is good in some ways and bad. As for the T as you probably worked out its not a T but and IDN.

 

[Namebrander]

q and z.com resolve to websites - quest and nissan

i thinks theyre the only end user single letter coms - I might be wrong but I think all other single letters show reserved by iana via whois

ive no iead re single numbers - wether they exist at all

 

[radioz]

Actually this April ICANNT announced the release of all single letter domains!

From Acroplex article:

While .com is still king, it is expected that the lesser .net and .org TLD’s will be registered as well within minutes of the 9:45am landrush

Actually mini-micro-nanoseconds (if only true!).

 

[FuseFX]

q and z.com resolve to websites - quest and nissan

i thinks theyre the only end user single letter coms - I might be wrong but I think all other single letters show reserved by iana via whois

ive no iead re single numbers - wether they exist at all

This is a relic from the era when Jon Postel used to run ICANN from his back-pocket. Though there is a serious discussion within ICANN to auction one-character domains.

 

[loscocco]

haha T.com for $31 might want to add a lot of zeros after that.

 

[MAllie]

Well, I know that a domainer seeing it going for that would be suspicious, but how would anyone else know? How can T.com be distinguished from T.com idn, if it doesn't look foreign? Not sure if this link still works now the auction is over:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=300242888696

 

[Rubber DuckRubber Duck is verified member.]

q and z.com resolve to websites - quest and nissan

i thinks theyre the only end user single letter coms - I might be wrong but I think all other single letters show reserved by iana via whois

ive no iead re single numbers - wether they exist at all

Well it is all in the ICANN Policy documents.

It never ceases to amaze me how domainers hypothesise what might happen without reference to the ICANN site which actually contains all the answers that are known and most of the clues about what is likely to happen in the future.

It is actually possible to follow the policy development long before the final policy is announced. In other Industries, companies take every advantage of available information out there and even track the whisphers on the grape vine. Domainers by contrast prefer to bury their heads in the sands and follow their own instincts or at least copy what their peers suggest.

Well, I know that a domainer seeing it going for that would be suspicious, but how would anyone else know? How can T.com be distinguished from T.com idn, if it doesn't look foreign? Not sure if this link still works now the auction is over:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=300242888696

The seller could not have been much more explicit:

Premium Cyrillic 1 Letter IDN Domain Name

PLEASE READ DETAILS HERE BEFORE BIDDING!


2. This domain name listed here is an IDN domain name. Bidder agrees by bidding that you know and understand what an Internationalized Domain Name is.

 

[Somatic]

$31 for cyrillic one letter IDN is bargain

 

[Rubber DuckRubber Duck is verified member.]

$31 for cyrillic one letter IDN is bargain

This was an obscure character. Not worth much.

I have one Russian single alphabetic in dot com, and I would want at least six figures now and more later.

And for those that think this is just wishful thinking, I would simply say that I have been selling quite a few Russian Cyrillics recently, so if anyone knows the market, then I do.

 

[dn-101]

The Russians like their .ru & now they're thinking of having also .rf + .rus.
The bolgarians want their .bg
There must be other folks using the same alphabet.
So, will there be
T.com
T.ru
T.rf
T.bg
... ?
Is there an end to it?
And of course, my favourite is T.kz from the land of Borat

 

[Rubber DuckRubber Duck is verified member.]

I already have dot nets with traffic and there you can also already register cyrillics in dot TV and a number of other extensions.

A languages ability to support extensions ultimately depends on the number of users. Expect a lot in Chinese and Arabic, but don't expect anything to up stage dot Com.

Also dot Ru is not going to support IDN because of problems with phishing and due to the fact that its cyrillic equivalent looks like PY which is country code for Paraguay.

 

[Namebrander]

I think im right in saying

x.com is owned by Paypal
also of note x.org , i.net are out there for single letter TLDs. Quite a limited list can’t wait to see how the other single letter domains go for once they are released.

 

[Rubber DuckRubber Duck is verified member.]

You and me both. I would expect 8 figures each for the dot coms.