Two character domains

[Keith]

Are registering of new two character domains allowed? Sorry if I sound stupid, Im just new to this.

 

[RON2]

Two characters in .com .net .org are valuable if you can get your hands on them. You won't find any available for registration though since they are long gone.

.COM/.NET can be re-registered if they drop

.ORG cannot be re-registered if they drop, if owner lets them expire then they are gone for good.

.US .INFO .BIZ were never available

Other ccTLDs vary

 

[Keith]

Ahh OK. Thanks. I was wondering about .ORGs, that sucks.

 

[dtobias]

Under the ICANN registry contract, no 2 letter domains are supposed to be allowed to be registered in .COM or .NET either (with existing ones grandfathered), but Verisign doesn't seem to be enforcing that. It varies by registrar whether you can manage to attempt to register such domains (some registrars might block 2-letter registrations because they're technically against ICANN rules).

 

[alia]

Thanks for the answers, BTW, I have even seen single character dot coms, such as z.com, anybody knows how they got one of those?

 

[CoolHost.com]

Originally posted by alia
Thanks for the answers, BTW, I have even seen single character dot coms, such as z.com, anybody knows how they got one of those?

I've only seen single character .NET's, myself. How they got one of those? Money. LOTS of it ... everything is "For sale", for a price. Good lesson for a newbie.
Have fun!

 

[RON2]

Here are the only one character .com/.net/.org's

x.com owned by Paypal/eBay
q.com owned by Quest
z.com owned by Nissan Motors

i.net owned by elequa

x.org X11 Technologies

If I missed one, someone let me know.

The rest were at one time available but have dropped and reclaimed by the registry. They are all on a permanent reserve for registry use.

 

[Beachie]

You missed q.net ("Q Networks")

That's all there is..

 

[register]

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[URLtrader]

Originally posted by -RJ-
Two characters in .com .net .org are valuable if you can get your hands on them. You won't find any available for registration though since they are long gone.

.COM/.NET can be re-registered if they drop

.ORG cannot be re-registered if they drop, if owner lets them expire then they are gone for good.

.US .INFO .BIZ were never available

Other ccTLDs vary

I had a snap on (now I can disclose the name ) ac.org and was very happy to watch it drop ! But it was not registered for me. Then I tried to register it at nsi.com and my credit card was charged $35. I was sooooo happy. They refunded me the $$. I tried at register.com and same story. Now I know why. Thanks.

 

[Mr Webname]

Imagine me when I saw MW.Org slip through my snap-grasp! :cry:

 

[TurNIC.com]

Originally posted by URLtrader


I had a snap on (now I can disclose the name ) ac.org and was very happy to watch it drop ! But it was not registered for me. Then I tried to register it at nsi.com and my credit card was charged $35. I was sooooo happy. They refunded me the $$. I tried at register.com and same story. Now I know why. Thanks.

LOL. I remember when I registered TV.info when I was a newbie. I was very happy till netsol refunded my cc