By this weekend the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will decide on exactly how to make single letter domain names (such as “a.com”, “b.net” and “c.org”) available.
These names were shelved in 1993 for “technical reasons” but those have been overcome and now the domains go up for sale. Companies are already making bids with Yahoo! going after y.com, Qwest Communications wants q.com, the former name of eBay Inc.’s PayPal was X.com Corp. so they’ll be after x.com, Nissan North America wants z.com for their Z sports cars, and the X.Org Foundation wants x.com. Estimates of the value of each of these names is $1 million and up.
