Posts Tagged ‘.COM’

Aug 2011 02

Rare two-letter .com domain comes up for sale

A rare two-letter domain name comes up for auction this month, almost 20 years after it was originally registered.
zy.com is one of the original .com domain names, devised in the early days of the World Wide Web.
Two-letter .com domains sold out in 1994, and have in recent years become a valuable commodity for Internet investors.
There …

Aug 2010 18

.COM, .NET & .TEL Seek ICANN Approval to Offer 1 & 2 Character Domain Names

Late last week VeriSign, the registry operator for .COM and .NET, and Telnic, the registry operator for .TEL, submitted separate Registry Services Requests to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that would enable both to release previously unreleased 1 & 2 character domain names.
According to VeriSign request documents,
“…VeriSign intends to allocate single …