2 One Letter .Net Domains Are Registered. How Much Will Others Sell For?
Friday, August 13th, 2010
24 one letter .net domains are currently reserved. How much will they sell for?
Last night I wrote about VeriSign’s request to auction off one and two character .net domain names.
I did a search on the one letter .net domains, and found that two of them are already registered. These domains are grandfathered in to the system.
i.net is technically owned by Inet Corp., but it’s essentially Future Media Architect’s private domain name registrar. You may ask yourself “Why would you use such a great domain for your own private registrar? Wouldn’t you want to keep the domain name available to sell to someone else?” But anyone who knows Future Media Architects knows they don’t sell any of their domain names.
The other registered domain is q.net, which was registered back in 1992. The domain name doesn’t respond, and its whois record is funky, but it’s registered at Gandi.net.
That leaves 24 ASCII one letter .net domain names that VeriSign hopes to release. How much will the typical one sell for? Leave a comment below.
Further Reading:
- ICANN may auction off single-letter domains
- NameDrive to Auction 760 Three Letter .EU Domains Starting at 1 Euro
- Over 1M .eu domains registered
Tags: one letter .net, VeriSign
Should be interesting.
I had always heard that Q.net was owned by Qwest.
Might still be the case.
Aron
I think people will pay alot of money for it. Rick Latona is selling single letter ccTLds right now with a reserve price of $2K, let’s see how that goes.
btw what about the n.net domains ?
$10K bad letter $250K good letter
i will pay for $2-3M if i am rich like Bill Gates.
Aron, tried buying q.net about 2 years ago, he turned down $200k and I LIKELY WASN’T HIS BEST OFFER.
What eveyone seems to be completely ignoring is the fact that the remaining 24 single letter .net do not belong to Verisign, nor do they belong to ICANN… They actually belong to the NTIA, which is the US Government.
Q.net is owned by Qwest.
I.net is FMA, who had to buy iNet corp to get the domain. The name cannot be transferred to a different owner, that is why the ownership is still iNet Corp. I know this for a fact because I facilitated that transaction for Tony.
…and as for the prices, should this farce continue? Try mid 6 figures, MINIMUM, for even the crappiest of letters.
nice, wander how much would these domains go for.
7 figure easy I guess … Spinning idea , just like T.CO .It shows us how much more innovation can be done in Web !