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discuss World's shortest domain name?

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Assumption: most if not all browsers address bar by default displays URLs in lower case and sans-serif font.

In lower case and sans-serif font, the narrowest characters are
  1. i, l;
  2. f, j, t, 1;
  3. followed by the rest.
Combinations of only i and l in x.xx would be first candidates, but neither Israel (.il) nor Lichtenstein (.li) seem to offer one-character domain names.
Next narrowest country codes are combinations of i or l with f, j, or t. I have found four: fi, it, lt, tl.
Out these, fi, it, and lt do not offer one-character domain domains.

.tl seems to be the narrowest TLD that offers one-character domain names.

I submit that that the world's shortest domain names are i.tl and l.tl.

Let me know your thoughts...
 
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Disclaimer: I've just acquired l.tl
 
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I really like l.tl especially as it phonetically sounds like little (if you forget the dot), which was the whole point of your search.
 
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I really like l.tl especially as it phonetically sounds like little (if you forget the dot), which was the whole point of your search.
l.tl is now a URL shortener service, currently in alpha.
 
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This is a cool project, congrats.
 
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This is a cool project, congrats.
Please feel free to use it. The accounts and the shortened URLS will be persisted. You don't need to, but if you become a member you can assign aliases (4 to 8 characters) to your short urls. Since those are first come first serve, they have value. Here is an example l.tl/dnhacks
 
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It depends also a little bit what font one will choose.
Monospace fonts will make no difference. w.mw would be the same short as i.ii :

w.mw
i.ii


While with typical fonts the difference is very big:

w.mw
i.ii
 
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Assumption: most if not all browsers address bar by default displays URLs in lower case and sans-serif font.

In lower case and sans-serif font, the narrowest characters are
  1. i, l;
  2. f, j, t, 1;
  3. followed by the rest.
Combinations of only i and l in x.xx would be first candidates, but neither Israel (.il) nor Lichtenstein (.li) seem to offer one-character domain names.
Next narrowest country codes are combinations of i or l with f, j, or t. I have found four: fi, it, lt, tl.
Out these, fi, it, and lt do not offer one-character domain domains.

.tl seems to be the narrowest TLD that offers one-character domain names.

I submit that that the world's shortest domain names are i.tl and l.tl.

Let me know your thoughts...
Well researched :xf.smile:
 
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