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by nadermx 925 days ago
https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-establi...

"Before the current reserved name policy was imposed in 1993, Jon Postel (under the IANA function) took steps to reserve all available single character letters and numbers at the second level for future extensibility of the Internet (see 20 May 1994 email from Jon Postel, https://web.archive.org/web/20100301054658/http://ops.ietf.o...)"

Although I can't find off hand where he said about the corporations but I do vaguely remember reading that at some time as well, may be wrong on that specific point though.
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raldi 925 days ago
The email doesn’t seem to me to be coming from a place of anti-corporate sentiment, but you be the judge:

https://web.archive.org/web/20030614022228/http://ops.ietf.o...

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nadermx 925 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843663

> Only three of the 26 possible single-letter domains have ever been registered under the .com domain, all before 1992. The other 23 single-letter .com domain names were registered January 1, 1992 by Jon Postel, with the intention to avoid a single company commercially controlling a letter of the alphabet.

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raldi 925 days ago
That’s just a quote of a sentence from Wikipedia with no citation.
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nadermx 925 days ago
https://web.archive.org/web/19991119020612/http://www.wired....

"Everyone else was getting rich and these guys were trying to keep the infrastructure together," Kahle said.

And perhaps chase the Wikipedia citation to see what old article it use to quote.

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