Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages
by rattray on Saturday May 30, 2015 @10:27AM
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Thanks, anonymous hero... actually, who owns/provides this? The only credit I can see is for the web design.
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http://dns.js.org/legals.html is linked under the title 'Impressum/Legals' and has owner details (as required by German law, I believe)
Stefan Keim: https://github.com/indus
Source: https://github.com/js-org
Cool, thanks for finding that. And thank you, Stefan!
Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages
by laurent123456 on Saturday May 30, 2015 @10:30AM
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I wonder how they managed to get such a short domain name, I thought 3 characters was the minimum. And it must cost quite a lot.
It's actually easy to get a 2 character name if you are willing to use an obscure tld.
I own http://0k.nu and I just regularly registered it.
I also own http://π.pw and http://ಠ.com .
There's a lot of 2-letter domains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom...
Single-letter domains for .org, .net, and .com are/were reserved, although there are exceptions such as http://www.x.org. Other TLDs may vary.
Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages
by Pirate-of-SV on Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:00AM
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For those who are looking for short domains .SE is selling a few at the moment.
http://www.tradera.com/campaign/punktse
The minimum is 1 character excluding the TLD. Like Twitter has http://t.co
Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages
by killwhitey on Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:01AM
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Actually even zero character ones exist http://uz/
It only works for me (OS X, Safari) when written as http://uz./ (a proper FQDN)
Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages
by BillinghamJ on Saturday May 30, 2015 @12:21PM
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That isn't a zero character name. It's just the TLD itself acting as a website. It's a 1 label domain rather than the usual 2-3 labels.
Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages
by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday May 30, 2015 @01:04PM
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Well, I suppose the root counts as a zero-character domain.
The trailing . makes it fully-qualified.
It does not resolve here.
Interesting side-effect, windows doesn't support TLD-only addresses.
.monash used to also have the same property (if I am not mistaken), until they realized this fact, I imagine.
I'd be pretty interested to see how much a domain like this would sell for...
Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages
by batuhanicoz on Saturday May 30, 2015 @10:32AM
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They list the owner in the legal information page: http://dns.js.org/legals.html
Thats my brothers homepage/business. He helped mé with the design and asked me for the backlink.