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Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages by rattray on Saturday May 30, 2015 @10:27AM (#9630250)
Thanks, anonymous hero... actually, who owns/provides this? The only credit I can see is for the web design.
Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages by switch007 on Saturday May 30, 2015 @10:33AM (#9630282)
http://dns.js.org/legals.html is linked under the title 'Impressum/Legals' and has owner details (as required by German law, I believe)
Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages by zuck9 on Saturday May 30, 2015 @10:32AM (#9630277)
Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages by rattray on Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:12AM (#9630410)
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 (#9630266)
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.
Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages by Buge on Saturday May 30, 2015 @01:57PM (#9631037)
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 .

Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages by ipp on Saturday May 30, 2015 @10:51AM (#9630341)
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 (#9630375)
For those who are looking for short domains .SE is selling a few at the moment. http://www.tradera.com/campaign/punktse
Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages by zuck9 on Saturday May 30, 2015 @10:34AM (#9630287)
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 (#9630377)
Actually even zero character ones exist http://uz/
Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages by calebegg on Saturday May 30, 2015 @01:52PM (#9631011)
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 (#9630640)
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 (#9630799)
Well, I suppose the root counts as a zero-character domain.

The trailing . makes it fully-qualified.

Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages by mahouse on Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:19AM (#9630424)
It does not resolve here.
Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages by RubyPinch on Saturday May 30, 2015 @12:40PM (#9630698)
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.

Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages by veb on Saturday May 30, 2015 @10:44AM (#9630322)
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 (#9630278)
They list the owner in the legal information page: http://dns.js.org/legals.html
Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages by jsorg on Saturday May 30, 2015 @07:24PM (#9632254)
Thats my brothers homepage/business. He helped mé with the design and asked me for the backlink.
Re:Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages by AC__ on Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:00AM (#9630374)
A few others have already responded, the sites whois entry also names Stefan Keim.