Re: [registrars] Single letter domain names

[Rick Wesson <wessorh@xxxxxx>]

Bruce,

why be concerned with 37 registrants, is there a more important topic, 
one where we might have a greater good.
its not worth the time/effort and would look foolish waste of energy if 
successful.
-rick


Bruce Tonkin wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> A member of the GNSO Council, Marilyn Cade, has placed the topic of
> single letter domain names on the agenda for the GNSO Council call this
> week.
>
> I would like to hear the views of the registrars constituency on this.
>
> Presently it is not possible to register names like:
> A.com. O.com. Y.com. M.com etc
>
> I assume that there would be businesses interested in such names.  It
> would appear to require a change in IETF standards/ICANN policy to allow
> this.
>
> If it was allowed, there would need to be a suitable method of
> allocating the names.  I don't think first-come, first-served will
> really work.
>
> Regards,
> Bruce Tonkin