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This idea is based on my Local + Proxy Remote Hosting for Personal Site idea, but attempts to mitigate some of its problems further.

I've been interested in Indieweb lately, and have been looking for a good domain for permashortlinks. The article goes into more detail, but advantages include:

• easier to read and type, especially from print
• fit better, especially in character limits of twitter, email line wraps, etc.

I have a domain that's six characters total (SLD + dot + TLD), but I'm not sure I like it: It has a '0' in place of an 'o' (might confuse people); is on a TLD that disallows whois privacy; and doesn't feel as representative of me as some others I've thought of. It's hard to find good short domains. One reason, of course, is that short domains are desirable and are taken more quickly when available. Another is that ICANN and predecessors traditionally seem to have been reluctant to allow short SLD's. One and two character SLD's are often reserved or "premium".

Idea

ICANN could make available single character TLD's for URL shortening purposes, and make available on them SLD's of one or more characters. This would make available, using normal ASCII domain rules:

The webmentions spec is now being published as a w3c working draft

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