Single letter domain names
I find my-self with a couple minutes in my hands today. So I did a little search around the web to find out where some single-letter-domain-names (with .com) would take me.
I found my self astonished about the fact that only 3 of them were linked to a website. They are q.com, x.com and z.com.
Q.com is a “shortcut” for Qwest.com website.
X.com redirects to Paypal website?!?
Z.com takes you to the Nissan ‘Z’ website.
Interesting search huh? I thought that companies would have register those domain names and make them redirecting to their website, in case of a mistyping error by a user.
Update: As someone said (BruB, in that case) you can’t register a dot com domain names if it doesn’t have more than 3 letters. He said that he was wondering how much companies gave (in cash) to be the owner of those domain names. I don’t know, but let me remind you two of the well-known sold domain names:
Business.com was sold to eCompanie for $7.5 million on November 1999.
Year2000.com bid on eBay ended at $10 million on January 2000.
