Historical info on how 'x.com' came to be registered
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. Thanks, -Drew
December 99. Grandfathered --srs ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+ops.lists=gmail.com@nanog.org> on behalf of Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2023 6:12:43 PM To: 'nanog@nanog.org' <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Historical info on how 'x.com' came to be registered 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. Thanks, -Drew
On Jul 27, 2023, at 6:57 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
December 99. Grandfathered
Right - and x.com was first registered in 1993. Anne --- Our Good Senders List™ email certification is honored by inbox providers and spam filters around the world so that the email you send goes to the inbox, not the spam folder. Learn more at gettotheinbox.com Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney CEO Get to the Inbox by SuretyMail Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal email marketing law) Board of Directors, Denver Internet Exchange
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
It appears that Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com> said:
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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?
Here's a story about its history. It's very old, from 1992. https://jimmysoni.substack.com/p/the-colorful-history-of-xcom-aka R's, John
On 29-Jul-2023, at 01:04, johnl@iecc.com wrote:
It appears that Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com> said:
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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?
Here's a story about its history. It's very old, from 1992.
https://jimmysoni.substack.com/p/the-colorful-history-of-xcom-aka
Interesting and informative one. Who knows ‘q’ and ‘z’ nowadays ?? Regards, Gaurav
R's, John
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