Any single letter domain extensions?

[heirJORDAN]

Silly question? Yes. But I figured I'd ask. I was looking for three things:

*do any single letter domain extensions exist? (i.e.; --- .a; .b; .c; .d, etc.

*what's the best way to pursue a case to have one registered public or even private? Is this even possible?

*Any type of list that contains EVERY domain extension option.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[VirtualT]

set up your own dns authorative server and you can have any extension you like

 

[heirJORDAN]

sounds expensive.

But honestly. I'm a newb to all of this. Is that as financially irrational as you just made it sound?

 

[VirtualT]

no, you can do it, the downside is you have to email everyone on the internet and tell them to add it to their resolv.conf

edit, but you really could do it for you and a few of your friends if you look into dns black magic

 

[heirJORDAN]

So let me get this straight so that I know I'm speaking the lingo correctly.

We are talking about instead of saaay.... dnf.com --- dn.f --- right?

If so, what's the outlets that I can look into to do this?

 

[VirtualT]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_DNS_root

 

[VirtualT]

step 1: install linux
step 2: install bind
step 3: buy and big book on dns and read
step 4: buy a big book on bind and read
step 5: set up your own dns root server
step 6: tell everyone who you want to use your extensions to add your nameserver to their resolution config.
step 7: create your web pages and your good to go

note: steps 3 and 4 might take a little while

 

[heirJORDAN]

Yeah. Sounds like it sucks. But I thank you for all the speedy responces thus far. I came in here thinking it was impossible for an average Joe.

I'm going to look into it more. But the money question has to be --- financially, what should I expect this to all cost?

 

[VirtualT]

nothing, apart from your time.
The beauty of open source software...

 

[heirJORDAN]

That's exactly what I wanted to hear. I might have to pay YOU for enlightening me to this. I had an idea and I love when it's not much in my way to stop it. I may not fall asleep now though....

But thanks again. I owe you the world.

 

[GT Web]

That's exactly what I wanted to hear. I might have to pay YOU for enlightening me to this. I had an idea and I love when it's not much in my way to stop it. I may not fall asleep now though....

But thanks again. I owe you the world.

Its a neat idea, but there is a reason you don't see everyone else doing this. Its incredibly time consuming to create and expensive to market. It might take off one day, but I doubt it.

Interesting information never-the-less.

 

[PRED]

Virtual t,
remind me when i go on 'who want's to be a millionaire' to add you to my 'phone a friend list'! :cheeky:
cheers Predator

 

[VirtualT]

hehe, somehow I think he will be cursing me by the time he gets half way into a DNS manual :faint:

 

[heirJORDAN]

Well, that might be the misconception. I'm trying to venture into a upstart e-business, if you want to call it that. And every domain I've tried is taken. So I changed the name to a acronym. I have no intentions of having other people use the extension. And I won't have a product either.

So I truly might be wasting time and effort in the end. But I guess I should've made that clear. This is intended to be for ONE domain only.

 

[Beaker]

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