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Hi all,

I am looking for single character domains to use for tracking/jump links on a project I have, it should be X.XX (similar to t.me effectively.)

If anyone has anything, let me know.

Thanks
 
With 1-L you'd be in a $xxx,xxx range. Are you certain this is something you want/need?
Three letter .uk's are short enough, I've stocked up on those exactly for such purposes:

jmp.uk
lnk.uk

but may sell one to the right buyer ;)
 
dn said:
With 1-L you'd be in a $xxx,xxx range. Are you certain this is something you want/need?
Three letter .uk's are short enough, I've stocked up on those exactly for such purposes:

jmp.uk
lnk.uk

but may sell one to the right buyer ;)
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I have realised this, I sent offers out on sedo where the desired price was 500eur and got counted at 125K :) I have a few LL and LLL .uk but was trying to find a L with any TLD just for this project, but I'm not willing to spend too much on an aesthetic purchase - jmp.uk and lnk.uk are great though for this - if a buyer came along, what would you sell those for?


ben said:
1-single-letter-domains.com

World's Shortest Internet Domains on SALE: 1-letter short!

1sld.com news for worlds shortest domain names
1-single-letter-domains.com 1-single-letter-domains.com
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Thanks, looks good - will check this out too.
 
Hook said:
jmp.uk and lnk.uk are great though for this - if a buyer came along, what would you sell those for?
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depends on the buyer, of course .. hehe ;)
but jokes aside, I don't need the two to develop and hence can take 6k for any one of them.
 
If going with a 1char GTLD remember they have ever escalating and unjustifiable 'premium' fees.

It's not uncommon for one of these domains marked as 'registry-premium' to increase 40+ times the cost at renewal !
 
astutiumRob said:
If going with a 1char GTLD remember they have ever escalating and unjustifiable 'premium' fees.

It's not uncommon for one of these domains marked as 'registry-premium' to increase 40+ times the cost at renewal !
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I thought they weren't able to increase the price at renewal, just on re-registration? Seems from a quick search that a lot of people are shocked when they receive their second year renewal notice because they didn't pay attention when originally registering that they were getting a heavy discount on the first year. IE they didn't look at the renewal price at the point of registration.

Online people cite this bit of the ICANN registry agreement:

2.10 Pricing for Registry Services.

(c) In addition, Registry Operator must have uniform pricing for renewals of domain name registrations (“Renewal Pricing”). For the purposes of determining Renewal Pricing, the price for each domain registration renewal must be identical to the price of all other domain name registration renewals in place at the time of such renewal, and such price must take into account universal application of any refunds, rebates, discounts, product tying or other programs in place at the time of renewal. The foregoing requirements of this Section 2.10(c) shall not apply for (i) purposes of determining Renewal Pricing if the registrar has provided Registry Operator with documentation that demonstrates that the applicable registrant expressly agreed in its registration agreement with registrar to higher Renewal Pricing at the time of the initial registration of the domain name following clear and conspicuous disclosure of such Renewal Pricing to such registrant, and (ii) discounted Renewal Pricing pursuant to a Qualified Marketing Program (as defined below). The parties acknowledge that the purpose of this Section 2.10(c) is to prohibit abusive and/or discriminatory Renewal Pricing practices imposed by Registry Operator without the written consent of the applicable registrant at the time of the initial registration of the domain and this Section 2.10(c) will be interpreted broadly to prohibit such practices. For purposes of this Section 2.10(c), a “Qualified Marketing Program” is a marketing program pursuant to which Registry Operator offers discounted Renewal Pricing, provided that each of the following criteria is satisfied: (i) the program and related discounts are offered for a period of time not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) calendar days (with consecutive substantially similar programs aggregated for purposes of determining the number of calendar days of the program), (ii) all ICANN accredited registrars are provided the same opportunity to qualify for such discounted Renewal Pricing; and (iii) the intent or effect of the program is not to exclude any particular class(es) of registrations (e.g., registrations held by large corporations) or increase the renewal price of any particular class(es) of registrations. Nothing in this Section 2.10(c) shall limit Registry Operator’s obligations pursuant to Section 2.10(b).
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I thought they weren't able to increase the price at renewal
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/rant on

Originally the 'premium' scam was higher reg only, normal renewal.

A couple of registries then started making transfer higher, followed by reg & renew & transfer all being 'premium'.

Then as they realised no-one policed the number of 'premiums' properly ( dodgy board members taking working group advice out of contracts / handbooks ) it started to get obscenely out of control.

As registry premium names are outside of the former price controls and not subject to the usual terms, it went from a higher reg and that same extra amount at ongoing renewals to a 'up by a factor of whatever we can con the registrant out of' at renewal.

Greedy scum at legacy registries started to get bought out by the greedy scum at new registries fatter than they were ( or simply became better at under-table stuff) so now it's becoming 'normal' for long existing domains to get 'reclassified' to be 'premium' - dotBIZ did this with all their 3letter and shorter names - so a registrant of 12 years with a 3 char .biz can be screwed for more cash

Horror stories ( or cautionary tales depending on your worldview ) of renewal fees being 4000% over the originally exploitative 'premium' reg fee on a 3 year old name get shared quietly, a registrar publicly shaming a registry finds they cant manage their existing premiums / names.

In the incestuous plague pit that most GTLDs reside things like
POA pricing for reg and negotiation at renew
Only allowing you to keep a premium name if they approve your business plan for it
Creating 'groups' and 'categories' of premiums, then limiting which registrars can handle some groups
and a whole plethora of slimy knotty toady schenanigans more

/rant off

I push back on stuff like this at ICANN, IGF and related events regularly.

Sadly, the ratio of sane-people to power-hungry-busybodies in Internet Governance being at best 1:500, the bulk of things regulated are about whether an rdap complaint should have the domain capitalised in the ticket notice rather than any actual solutions to genuine problems.
 
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