1 letter domain for parking? v.com?

[cjbay]

1 letter domain for parking? www.v.net?

If you had www.v.net. How much do you think it would be worth for yourself, not to an end user (strictly based on google results). Theres about 290,000,000 google results for the letter "v". So do you think you would do very well parking it? I mean, do you think people would actually ever type that in since theres that many google results (even if it's a .net)?

 

[AHA7]

(strictly based on google results). Theres about 290,000,000 google results for the letter "v". So do you think you would do very well parking it? I mean, do you think people would actually ever type that in since theres that many google results (even if it's a .net)?

Let it have 290,000,000 google results? So what???

The question is how many people are searching for the letter "v"? and a better question is why would they do that search?

Google search results for single letters don't make much sense. :imho:

 

[Pound]

If you had www.v.net. How much do you think it would be worth for yourself, not to an end user (strictly based on google results). Theres about 290,000,000 google results for the letter "v". So do you think you would do very well parking it? I mean, do you think people would actually ever type that in since theres that many google results (even if it's a .net)?

You can't have a 1 letter .TLD (yet anyway...). There is talk of these being released at which point I would estimate .coms getting low seven figures so a .net would probably be getting the same as LL.coms are getting at the moment ($100k minimum). Oh and I'd guess they get a fair amount of traffic.

 

[MadAboutDomains]

If you had www.v.net. How much do you think it would be worth for yourself, not to an end user (strictly based on google results). Theres about 290,000,000 google results for the letter "v". So do you think you would do very well parking it? I mean, do you think people would actually ever type that in since theres that many google results (even if it's a .net)?

You can't have a 1 letter .TLD (yet anyway...). There is talk of these being released at which point I would estimate .coms getting low seven figures so a .net would probably be getting the same as LL.coms are getting at the moment ($100k minimum). Oh and I'd guess they get a fair amount of traffic.

You can have them, just not other than Q.com, X.com and Z.com

 

[Devil_Dog]

You can have them, just not other than Q.com, X.com and Z.com

My question i've always had throughout the years is:

WHY? Why are there limitations with 1 and 2 letter .coms/nets/orgs?

No single letter domains virtually, and when 2 letters expired back in the day, they were snapped up by the registry.

 

[AHA7]

My question i've always had throughout the years is:

WHY? Why are there limitations with 1 and 2 letter .coms/nets/orgs?

No single letter domains virtually, and when 2 letters expired back in the day, they were snapped up by the registry.

Maybe because they can be used as subTLD's. For example, .u.com may become a respectful domain extension someday. If that happens, the registry would want to control such subTLD's :imho:

 

[MadAboutDomains]

I think it's cool that theyve done it. If they release them I will have some sort of wierd respect for these domains.

 

[Arabian]

hehehe if i have this domain :P i will quiet my job,

And have some cold drinks :P

 

[Earthian]

"Single-letter names under ".com," ".net" and ".org" were set aside in 1993 as engineers grew concerned about their ability to meet the expected explosion in demand for domain names. They weren't sure then whether a single database of names could hold millions — more than 40 million in the case of ".com" today. " (source: CBS)

basically , according to the then technology , engineers were not sure if the rise in usage of domains could be accomodated ... so they kept the single-letter domains to create "subTLDs" if it was needed ... therefore instead of 1 .com they could implement 26 .L.com (eg. .a.com , .b.com , etc) or 36 .C.com (.1.com , ... , .9.com , .a.com , ... , .z.com) if it was needed ...




Single-Letter Second-Level Domains (source: Wikipedia)




Schedule of Reserved Names (source: ICANN)

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[sashas]

Also, I think LL names can be confused for country codes, etc. hence they can't be regged anymore.

Someone owning US.com can offer its subdomains (infact it is being offered) while .us.com is a TLD in itself too.

 

[Devil_Dog]

"Single-letter names under ".com," ".net" and ".org" were set aside in 1993 as engineers grew concerned about their ability to meet the expected explosion in demand for domain names. They weren't sure then whether a single database of names could hold millions — more than 40 million in the case of ".com" today. " (.....
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Thanks for that, never thought of going to wikipedia, doh.

 

[htmlindex]

Also, I think LL names can be confused for country codes, etc. hence they can't be regged anymore.

Someone owning US.com can offer its subdomains (infact it is being offered)

Same as:

uk.com
br.com
eu.com
cn.com
de.com
hu.com
no.com
qc.com
ru.com
ru.com
sa.com
se.com
uy.com
za.com

 

[shockie]

:lol:

appraising an l.com based on google search results is absurd.

 

[cjbay]

I was just trying to figure what the odds of getting type in traffic would be for 1 character international domains since theres so many still left. I found alot with just as many google results as the letters of the english alphabet and noticed that most of the one letters of the english alphabet dont have sites or parking to them, so i looked up "www.o.net" and some others on alexa and noticed they all have considerable traffic. So I assumed it must be type in traffic. So if the english letter "p' has just as many google results as the japanese character "あ" for example and あ.net is still left...I wonder if I could assume that I would at least get 1% of the traffic that p.net gets if I regged あ.net. Im just trying to understand why people would type in www.p.net. Only using google search results to compare the knowledge in peoples minds of the letter p in the english world to the knowledge in peoples minds of the character あ in the japanese world.

あ is just an example, thats not the actual domain I had in mind and definately does not have as many google results as the letters of the english alphabet.

 

[Charley]

If they release them I will have some sort of wierd respect for these domains.

I don't think they will release any time now. If it were released, it would surely have a very high registration/renew fees.

 

[Coopey]

I'm often typing just one letter into the address bar of the browser, as it then displays recent addresses beginning with that letter. The amount of times I've hit 'Enter' too quick and ended up with the browser looking up n.com (instead of namepros.com) is enormous, probably two or three times a day, most days for quite a few years.
I'm guessing these domains would get lots of typo traffic if they're ever registered.

 

[Charley]

I'm guessing these domains would get lots of typo traffic if they're ever registered.

Yes, exactly.

I was speaking with some of the ll.com owners and they said, they get 1000's of visitors i.e. type in traffic.

Single letter would fetch 2/3/4 times more.

 

[cjbay]

Thanks. And good point S~. I wouldnt have thought of that.

 

[domainer50]

When the day comes and www.L.com are able to be registered i suspect them selling in the millions of dollars.