
The IANA has reserved the one letter and number domains in COM, NET,
EDU and ORG, in case they are needed to support one proposed scheme to
distribute the load on the COM (and other top level domains).  It has
not been decided if the scheme these names were reserved for will be
used or not, and it probably won't be decided for several months.

A few of the one letter codes had been allocated under the normal
procedures before the IANA had the idea to reserve all of them.  These
allocations were allowed to stand.

There have quite a few inquiries about allocating these one letter
domains to various companies.  We haven't been keeping a list of those
that have asked about them.  At this point it would be unfair to
notify some people and not others, if and when they are made
available.  So, if this ever happens, it will have to be done with a
very public announcement (at least an "Informational" RFC).

IANA

