domains Facebook, Twitter and D.T. (T-Mobile) buy 1-letters

[mobilespecialists]

Recent publishing of whois records after the .ie 1 and 2 letter domains release in Ireland show that 3 internet and communications giants - Facebook, Twitter and Deutsche Telekom (the owner of T-Mobile) have registered 1-character short domains.

In case of Twitter the domains might be used similar to already owned t.co . What could be the plans of the other companies? Will Facebook use it for some new internet service?
And how might this buys affect the short domains market?

Read more about and see the latest 1-letter sales list here: http://1-single-letter-domains.com/news/news1/?r=_n1letters_ie

 

[doubleU]

Normal protection moves from the big giants, I expect use initially as redirect and the usual link shortener or country specific site.

It should have little impact on short domains market as .ie domains are non-tradable.

 

[mobilespecialists]

Normal protection moves from the big giants, I expect use initially as redirect and the usual link shortener or country specific site.

It should have little impact on short domains market as .ie domains are non-tradable.

Thats right. IE domains are bound to the buyer and can not be sold or traded. Still the fact that Twitter bought at least 2 of them shows the big tech companies have a look at such domains. Logically in case of Twitter a shortener is the nearest option. Interesting are the plans of Facebook and Deutsche Telekom.

 

[mobilespecialists]

Heard today that Twitter might use "V" for videos and "P" for picture services!

 

[namerav]

I think those are defensive registrations, maybe investment too

 

[mobilespecialists]

I suppose Facebook, Deutsche Telekom and Twitter do not need the investment revenues form a few domains. IMHO more likely they regged the domains because they wanted to have one of this shortest type or they really plan some new feauters to build on this domains. We probably all know how successfull Twitter used the t.co domain. Maybe Facebook now has some plans for f.ie too.