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from the terms.html:

JS.ORG may also terminate the provision of a certain or all subdomains. Concerned users will be notified at least 7 days in advance by an issue in their GitHub repository

I don't know how much a two-letter domain is worth, but I suspect it's a lot. Trusting the current owner is fine, but should something happen to him, the domain might be considered an asset to be sold off, at which point hosting will end.

I've often thought a .js TLD would be useful but given it would be dependent on a new country being formed and taking that as its ISO country code, I guess it's unlikely.

So perhaps this is the next best thing. Though would be nice to have a bit more transparency about who is behind it.

"given it would be dependent on a new country being formed and taking that as its ISO country code, I guess it's unlikely"

is that true anymore?

I think so - ICANN prohibit the creation of 2-letter TLDs. From http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faq...:

2.12 Can a New gTLD name be 2 letters?

Applied-for gTLD strings in ASCII must be composed of three or more visually distinct characters. Two-character ASCII strings are not permitted, to avoid conflicting with current and future country-codes based on the ISO 3166-1 standard.

ah, right ok. thanks!

It doesn't have to be an independent country, autonomous regions also get 2-letter TLDs.

So all it takes is for Brazil to declare Jaraguá do Sul [1] an autonomous city-state. The local government can then apply for the .js TLD and start getting rich by selling domains to developers. Simple as pie!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaraguá_do_Sul

Speak of JS, Jiangsu in China is also an option.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangsu

What about micronations? Buy an island, declare independence, get a TLD.

Unfortunately it requires becoming party to the International Court of Justice which requires Security Council approval. This is why Sealand doesn't have a TLD.

The two things I hear from HN about new gTLDs are that they're a pointless cash grab and that it would be really nice to have a .js domain for javascript projects.

I think a js.org email would be pretty rad also.

Thanks, anonymous hero... actually, who owns/provides this? The only credit I can see is for the web design.

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.

The minimum is 1 character excluding the TLD. Like Twitter has http://t.co

Actually even zero character ones exist http://uz/

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.

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.

Well, I suppose the root counts as a zero-character domain.

The trailing . makes it fully-qualified.

It only works for me (OS X, Safari) when written as http://uz./ (a proper FQDN)

I'd be pretty interested to see how much a domain like this would sell for...

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.

For those who are looking for short domains .SE is selling a few at the moment. http://www.tradera.com/campaign/punktse

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 .

Stefan Keim: https://github.com/indus

Source: https://github.com/js-org

Cool, thanks for finding that. And thank you, Stefan!

They list the owner in the legal information page: http://dns.js.org/legals.html

http://dns.js.org/legals.html is linked under the title 'Impressum/Legals' and has owner details (as required by German law, I believe)

A few others have already responded, the sites whois entry also names Stefan Keim.

Thats my brothers homepage/business. He helped mé with the design and asked me for the backlink.

40 pull-requests in 6 hours. This will be long night for me... Starting to merge in 5 minutes (after a cigarette)

Amazing how you posted this twice earlier but didn't get attention.

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