Q.com
When it comes down to short domains, Q.com is above ultra-premium; both single letter AND of the “Chinese premium” variety.
Whether it’s worth seven figures or more, it’s impossible to assess, as it’s owned by mega-corporation, CenturyLink, formerly known as Qwest Communications.
The domain Q.com was created in 1999, after at least 7 years of being reserved by the IANA.
As a premium, single letter .com domain, it’s interesting that it’s also being used to manage other domains, considerably longer in size.
About three dozen domains are managed by an email address under Q.com, and these are some of the longest, 12 characters and up:
tolerancenow.com
starvacation.net
spaceweekend.net
sbbeachhouse.com
galacticport.com
cooperatenow.com
spacevacation.net
preownedcisco.com
openyourminds.com
findperception.com
eyesoftheearth.com
chooseidentity.com
preownedforsale.com
discovernothing.com
choosetolerance.com
buysellpreowned.com
thinktankboulder.com
seeinperspective.com
chooseacceptance.com
buyselltradeused.com
intelligentmatter.com
choosewhatmatters.com
discoverperspective.com
preownedciscohardware.com
preownedciscoequipment.com
preownednetworkhardware.com
preownednetworkequipment.com
For what it’s worth, CenturyLink controls more than 3,600 domain names, and many aren’t pointed anywhere.
“When One Fortune 500 Company Squats on Another Fortune 500 Company’s Intellectual Property”
>preownedcisco.com
>preownedciscohardware.com
>preownedciscoequipment.com
…nothing happens. 😛
David – The Q.com email isn’t necessarily that of the company. 😉
But you reported that the company CenturyLink owns Q.com. Therefore, the associated email is also owned by them, and as such, they’re squatting on Cisco. 😉
David – Example: Suppose I work for Microsoft and use my work email to register domains, that’s risky in certain ways but not for the sake of registering them.
Gotchya. Should’ve done a whois on them before jumping to that conclusion. I initially thought that they were registered to the email with the company also being the registrant – administrative or otherwise; though, no other connections to be found other than CenturyLink employing a squatter. 😛
Q.com was a working website for Qwest Corp for it’s employees to use. When Centurylink bought out Qwest Corp., they took over the q.com name.
Tom – That’s exactly what this article says.
If you had Qwest for home internet you also got a Q.com email included. If you still have that account after it became Centurylink you still have it for your personal email. So just having a Q.com email doesn’t mean it’s connected to the company. It’s like saying if I were to register preownedciscohardware.com using a gmail account that Google is taking shots at apple.
I have an email at Q.com and have never worked or been assoicaited with Qwest or Centurylink, and have only ever been a customer.
THIS IS A MOST CONFUSING SITUATION!!!
I am only trying to recover from an error in/from my e-mail service; for which I cannot find its origin or a solution. I am being harassed, badgered, attacked: A small pop-up window repeatedly orders me to enter user name & password for a server “smtp.q.com”. I cannot get rid of it. I can receive all my incoming e-mail, but outgoing mail mail is blocked. The harassment only stops if I exit my MS Outlook mail program.
Online there are complaints about the same problem over the years.
I only post here because there is some chance that it may be a domain problem; but there are many other possibilities.
I have many user names, and even more passwords. Question; what’s the request? Some particular user name? some particular password; just let me know! (I have had several incidents with my Healthcare provider claiming the my e-mail address is not valid! Even as I was receiving several hundred messages a week.) On my desktop PC I use WINDOWS 7; MS Outlook; Internet provider is CenturyLink DSL.
THERE ARE LOTS OF MOVING PARTS to this problem!
I am at the peak of my frustration, thank you for letting me vent. 🙂
RBS