Path: ns3.vrx.net!news2.best.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!enews.sgi.com!feeder.via.net!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!news1.alsv1.occa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; HP-UX B.10.20 9000/712) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: www.e.com References: <86pttm$gv8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 02:59:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.13.177.200 X-Complaints-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Trace: news1.alsv1.occa.home.com 949201146 24.13.177.200 (Sat, 29 Jan 2000 18:59:06 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 18:59:06 PST Organization: @Home Network Xref: ns3.vrx.net comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:10256 Vin Diaz wrote: > > A couple weeks ago a colleague asked me to check out a web site www.e.com. > I told him such domain name wouldn't exist, because almost all > single-character domains are reserved by ICANN. To my great surprise, the > host name did resolve to a 24.x.x.x address, and some guy named Scott had > web page on that URL. At the same time, whois showed that the domain was > reserved by ICANN and no nameserver was listed. I was really confused. > Today I went back to check out the site again, but the name doesn't resolve > any more. Does anyone know the story behind this? Hi Vin, I just caught this message. Yes, it's true. E.com was hosted on my server. We are in the process of seeking legal representation regarding this matter since Register.com just cancelled our registration without following proper procedures.