Historical info on how 'x.com' came to be registered

Thu Jul 27 13:10:48 UTC 2023

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 12:42:43PM +0000, Drew Weaver wrote:
> Does anyone have any historical information on how 'x.com' came to be
> registered even though single letters were reserved?
> 
> Is there a story or is it as simple as it was registered prior to the reservation?
> 
> Just wondering.

You are probably familiar with the reservation of single letter and
digit TLDs:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-dnsind-iana-dns-01#page-15

The full names of the previous owners are listed in an archive of a
crawl from 1996:

http://web.archive.org/web/19961219022100/http://x.com/

One of them may be able to describe how they bought it.

		Mukund
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