User:Frostly/The quest for a one-letter Wikimedia domain name

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w.wiki is cool, but a one-letter shortcut^[1] is even cooler 😎

Good options include:

• .com and .net TLDs are unavailable 🚫
• w.org is already taken by WordPress 💔
• w.page is a good option ("Wikipedia page")! It's a bit long, though 📜
  • However, it's only $1,768.66 USD a year, according to Namecheap! 💰
• w.ac and w.co are available and probably the best options 🎉
  • w.ac could symbolize "Wikimedia: [it's] About Community!" 👯
  • .co could symbolize "community o'clock" ⏰
  • .ac is priced at 5 BTC or ~17K USD at time of writing
  • .co is priced in the "low seven figures" USD (1+ million)
    • It's a lot of 💸, but surprisingly less than expected

What does this contribute to the community? Nothing! It'd just be fun to have a supershort URL 🔗 someday.