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Overstock.com is a member of [[ICANN]]'s [[CBUC|Commercial and Business Users Constituency]].<ref>[http://www.bizconst.org/members.htm BC Membership List]</ref> The company has been involved in the different activities of ICANN since 2004. In 2005, Overstock.com's chairman and CEO Patrick Byrne, sent a letter to then ICANN CEO [[Paul Twomey]] requesting the [[ICANN Board]] to support a policy allowing the registration of single letter domain names. Byrne informed Twomey of its interest to register the single letter/second level domain name O.com. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/byrne-to-twomey-11nov05.pdf Dr. Patrick Byrne Letter to Paul Twomey]</ref>  

Overstock.com is a member of [[ICANN]]'s [[CBUC|Commercial and Business Users Constituency]].<ref>[http://www.bizconst.org/members.htm BC Membership List]</ref> The company has been involved in the different activities of ICANN since 2004. In 2005, Overstock.com's chairman and CEO Patrick Byrne, sent a letter to then ICANN CEO [[Paul Twomey]] requesting the [[ICANN Board]] to support a policy allowing the registration of single letter domain names. Byrne informed Twomey of its interest to register the single letter/second level domain name O.com. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/byrne-to-twomey-11nov05.pdf Dr. Patrick Byrne Letter to Paul Twomey]</ref>  

Aside from Overstock.com, there was a significant number of third parties who also expressed their interest and inquiries on the issue. In response, ICANN created a Forum on Allocation Methods for Single-Letter and Single-Digit Domain Names based on the recommendation of the [[GNSO]] Council in 2007. Prior to the GNSO Council's recommendation, the [[ RN-WG|Reserved Names Working Group]] reviewed and consulted technical experts about the technical implications of releasing single-letter and single-digit domain names from reservation. All possible single-letter and single-digit domain names were reserved by [[Jon Postel]] in 1993.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-16oct07.htm ICANN Establishes Forum on Allocation Methods for Single-Letter and Single-Digit Domain Names]</re>

Aside from Overstock.com, there was a significant number of third parties who also expressed their interest and inquiries on the issue. In response, ICANN created a Forum on Allocation Methods for Single-Letter and Single-Digit Domain Names based on the recommendation of the [[GNSO]] Council in 2007. Prior to the GNSO Council's recommendation, the [[ RN-WG|Reserved Names Working Group]] reviewed and consulted technical experts about the technical implications of releasing single-letter and single-digit domain names from reservation. All possible single-letter and single-digit domain names were reserved by [[Jon Postel]] in 1993.<ref>

[http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-16oct07.htm ICANN Establishes Forum on Allocation Methods for Single-Letter and Single-Digit Domain Names]</ref>

In 2009, ICANN approved the proposal of Neustar, to release of one and Two-Character .BIZ Domains.<ref>

In 2009, ICANN approved the proposal of Neustar, to release of one and Two-Character .BIZ Domains.<ref>