Re: Historical info on how 'x.com' came to be registered

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 12:42:43PM +0000, Drew Weaver wrote:

Does anyone have any historical information on how 'x.com' came to be registered even though single letters were reserved?

Is there a story or is it as simple as it was registered prior to the reservation?

Just wondering.

You are probably familiar with the reservation of single letter and digit TLDs: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-dnsind-iana-dns-01#page-15 The full names of the previous owners are listed in an archive of a crawl from 1996: http://web.archive.org/web/19961219022100/http://x.com/ One of them may be able to describe how they bought it. Mukund