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ARTICLE · 03 FEBRUARY 2020

.PS Joins The Single Character Domain Name Club

In doing so, the .PS Registry joined a growing number of Registries to offer this type of domain name.

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David Taylor
David Taylor

At the beginning of January 2020, the Registry for .PS (Palestine), the Palestinian Nation Internet Naming Authority (PNINA), made available a number of single character .PS domain names. In doing so, the .PS Registry joined a growing number of Registries to offer this type of domain name.

There are no local presence eligibility requirements to register a .PS domain name so anyone, be they an individual or an organisation, can register one.

With the advent of the new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) and the growing list of country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) that allow single character domain names (including those that allow single character Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs)), these domain names are now much less rare than they once were, although there are only three single character domain names currently assigned under .COM (< q.com >, < x.com > and < z.com >). Among the ccTLDs, single character domain names are allowed in around 69 of them,

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