ICANN will be seeking proposals for potential allocation methods of single-letter and single-digit domain names at the second level in generic Top-Level Domain registries. Examples include a.com, i.info, 4.mobi, 8.org. Comments regarding the potential uses for revenue generated from the sale of such domains are also requested.
From today's release: "ICANN has received many inquiries from third parties seeking to register single-letter and single-digit domain names, and has advised these parties that the names are reserved… ICANN is following its bottom-up, multi-stakeholder model to develop suitable allocation mechanisms for the release of single-letter and single-digit domain names as recommended by the GNSO working group."
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Interestingly, I was just having a conversation on this very topic with someone recently, so you can see my proposed allocation methods that I just posted.