The ABCs of the Internet

In case you hadn't heard, Twitter is becoming X by decree of the great Elon (if you needed a sign that we are living in the cyberpunk dystopia, look no further). But that gave me an idea: Are there other single letter sites out there? What do they have? How much of it is porn?

So, I decided to go through every single single letter .com, and .org site that is there. And the result is below! Enjoy. (As with anything on the internet, this is only a snapshot in time and is all subject to change).

Pictured: Due to the structure of the internet, we are going to be using English/Roman letters.

.com

Site Link	Type of Site	Notes and Witty Observations
a.com	None	According to domain checkers, this is taken. But it just leads to nowhere. (Because this was more common than initially expected, going to just leave this field blank for the rest that are like this).
b.com	None
c.com	None
d.com	None
e.com	None
f.com	None
g.com	None
h.com	None
i.com	None
j.com	None
k.com	None
l.com	None
m.com	None
n.com	None
o.com	None
p.com	None
q.com	ISP	Redirects to quantumfiber.com, an internet service provider that offers fiber internet in at least 17 states in the United States.
r.com	None
s.com	None
t.com	None
u.com	None
v.com	None
w.com	None
x.com	Social Networking	It's Twitter. But we don't call it that anymore. Kind of a Sears Tower/Willis Tower situation.
y.com	None
z.com	ISP	Web publishing, online trading, and cryptocurrency trading platform in Japan.

.org

Site Link	Type of Site	Notes and Witty Observations
a.org	???	This one is weird. This page is just a blank box for text with an "unlock" button. Spooky. Using the WayBack machine, this page seems like it used to be a page all about AI (and has a copyright notice from Eric Bach, a prominent computer scientist). But in 2017, the site changed to "coming soon from the founders of AutismAwareness.com" and then was sold quickly thereafter to its current mysterious owner. I put in a few attempts (including one with an email to contact me), though in hindsight I probably shouldn't have. Whatever.
b.org	None	Unlike the other "none" sites, b.org's page is a page selling the domain name. It's price? $500,000 (though you can make an offer if this is too steep).
c.org	Social Work	Redirect to change.org, a site dedicated to creating petitions.
d.org	None
e.org	Energy Company	E is an energy company based in Birmingham, England. It's about as interesting as you would expect a website from a power company to be.
f.org	Coding/Crypto	The site purports to be FinTech Labs, though the logo, capitalization and site style is different from fintechlabs.com. This version of FinTech seems to have multiple different financial products. There's a login for users (which I can't get through). A common phrase that keeps coming up is "IN CODE WE TRUST". Looking at their bare bones product pages, they seem to have a bitcoin mining setup, mobile money clients, and other stuff. However, one of their pages (finclusion.com) has a walkthrough of the concept from Bill Gates himself (though I don't know if they are actually backed by Bill). This is bigger than meets the eye (and I'm sure that's on purpose). I may have to do other investigations...
g.org	???	A Freemasonry site that is locked down to only logins. Peeking through the code of conduct, it seems like this may be a special social networking site. The site has a similar layout and near identical login system to f.org, begging the question if they are related. I do have some history with Freemasonry (it's complicated and I may go into it one day, but for now let's just say that I'm not a mason, not even a wayward one). But from my experience, I've never heard of this site (and it is not part of the normal "Our Lodge Page" or other stuff).
h.org	None
i.org	???	This page redirects to a Meta "something went wrong" page with a Facebook logo at the top (which does link to FB).
j.org	None
k.org	None
l.org	None
m.org	???	This just displays a large, white, uppercase "M" on the screen with a grey background.
n.org	None
o.org	None
p.org	None
q.org	Governance	A decentralized governance layer for the current internet (think how blockchain decentralizes a ledger, but for dispute resolution and enforcement). The site seems to be active, with the first blog post on the site from 2021. As with any Web3 thing, it seems to have its own Q Tokens and other stuff. In the ecosystem, there are projects from users like crypto wallets, internet alternatives, NFT mints, and other stuff.
r.org	None	Just like b.org, this is for sale for $500,000!
s.org	None
t.org	None	Just like b.org and r.org (with same price).
u.org	Charity	Redirects to understood.org, which is a charity that aims to assist neurodivergent people. It has a number of articles about how neurodivergent people work and can also match people with experts for questions.
v.org	Charity	The V Foundation for Cancer Research, which was founded by sports-ball coach Jim Valvano. Seems like a pretty basic cancer charity.
w.org	Websites	Redirects to wordpress.org. If you don't know what wordpress is, think something that can set up websites, online storefronts, and such (ala Wix or Squarespace). But, even if you have never heard of it, you've almost certainly used a Word Press site; it was used by 43% of the top 10 million websites as of December 2023 (according to Wikipedia). It also predates most modern website creators, being launched in 2003.
x.org	Computer Systems	Provides a free, open source implementation of the X Window System, which is a type of GUI commonly used in Unix-like operating systems.
y.org	Community Center	The portal to the YMCA's digital backbone (the same one the Village People were singing about).
z.org	Computer Services	Seems to be another website creator where you can make pages under the z.org domain. Seems like a cool way to get a good domain name, but it does cost money. It also has a public lobby where you can just chat with randos.

Significantly less porn than I was expecting. So that's... good? Idk. If any of these tickle your fancy, nothing stopping you from checking it out. This is certainly an interesting cross section of the internet.