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colinprince
from the terms.html:

JS.ORG may also terminate the provision of a certain or all subdomains. Concerned users will be notified at least 7 days in advance by an issue in their GitHub repository

trothamel
I don't know how much a two-letter domain is worth, but I suspect it's a lot. Trusting the current owner is fine, but should something happen to him, the domain might be considered an asset to be sold off, at which point hosting will end.
rattray
Thanks, anonymous hero... actually, who owns/provides this? The only credit I can see is for the web design.
laurent123456
I wonder how they managed to get such a short domain name, I thought 3 characters was the minimum. And it must cost quite a lot.
zuck9
The minimum is 1 character excluding the TLD. Like Twitter has http://t.co
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killwhitey
Actually even zero character ones exist http://uz/
mahouse
It does not resolve here.
RubyPinch
Interesting side-effect, windows doesn't support TLD-only addresses.

.monash used to also have the same property (if I am not mistaken), until they realized this fact, I imagine.

BillinghamJ
That isn't a zero character name. It's just the TLD itself acting as a website. It's a 1 label domain rather than the usual 2-3 labels.
TazeTSchnitzel
Well, I suppose the root counts as a zero-character domain.

The trailing . makes it fully-qualified.

veb
I'd be pretty interested to see how much a domain like this would sell for...
AC__
A few others have already responded, the sites whois entry also names Stefan Keim.
jsorg
Thats my brothers homepage/business. He helped mé with the design and asked me for the backlink.
lukebennett
I've often thought a .js TLD would be useful but given it would be dependent on a new country being formed and taking that as its ISO country code, I guess it's unlikely.

So perhaps this is the next best thing. Though would be nice to have a bit more transparency about who is behind it.

catshirt
"given it would be dependent on a new country being formed and taking that as its ISO country code, I guess it's unlikely"

is that true anymore?

lukebennett
I think so - ICANN prohibit the creation of 2-letter TLDs. From http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faq...:

2.12 Can a New gTLD name be 2 letters?

Applied-for gTLD strings in ASCII must be composed of three or more visually distinct characters. Two-character ASCII strings are not permitted, to avoid conflicting with current and future country-codes based on the ISO 3166-1 standard.

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pavlov
It doesn't have to be an independent country, autonomous regions also get 2-letter TLDs.

So all it takes is for Brazil to declare Jaraguá do Sul [1] an autonomous city-state. The local government can then apply for the .js TLD and start getting rich by selling domains to developers. Simple as pie!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaraguá_do_Sul

JDDunn9
What about micronations? Buy an island, declare independence, get a TLD.
petercooper
Unfortunately it requires becoming party to the International Court of Justice which requires Security Council approval. This is why Sealand doesn't have a TLD.
just_bytecode
The two things I hear from HN about new gTLDs are that they're a pointless cash grab and that it would be really nice to have a .js domain for javascript projects.
niix
I think a js.org email would be pretty rad also.
jsorg
40 pull-requests in 6 hours. This will be long night for me... Starting to merge in 5 minutes (after a cigarette)
zuck9
Amazing how you posted this twice earlier but didn't get attention.