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Who owns the 676 two-letter dotcoms?

AA American Airlines
AB Allen-Bradley (part of Rockewell Automation)
AC Owned by Accenture Ltd (formerly Andersen Consulting)
AD AD.com (sold by Marcos Guillen, now owned by Verizon Media (fka Oath, AOL))
AE American Eagle Outfitters
AF American Freightways (part of Fedex)
AG American Greetings
AH Advanced Healthcare
AJ Ask Jeeves
AL Alabama Live
AM Ackerman McQueen
AP Audio Precision
AQ AdventureQuest
AU used as a domain registry
AV AltaVista (now owned by Yahoo)
AW Academic Work (sold by Addison Wesley (now owned by Pearson Education))
 
BA British Airways (acquired from Bell Atlantic)
BC Boise Cascade
BD Becton Dickinson
BE Be, Inc
BH Bell Helicopter (was: Butterworth Heinemann, publisher)
BI Behavioural Interventions
BK Burger King
BM Burson-Marsteller
BN Barnes & Noble
BP British Petroleum
BR CentralNic (Brazil)
BT British Telecom
BV Black & Veatch
BW BW.com (sold by Brown & Williamson)
BX Blackstone (BX is its stock code), bought from BX.com, the original registrant
 
CA Computer Associates
CB Career Builder
CC Comedy Central
CE CE Technologies
CF Consolidated Freightways
CG Constitution Group
CI CI Investments (acquired from by Cognition Corporation)
CJ Commission Junction
CK Calvin Klein, Inc.
CL CraigsList (was: Computer Literacy Inc, Fatbrain, part of Barnes & Noble)
CN CentralNic (China)
CP Chicago Pneumatics
CQ Congressional Quarterly
CS Compuserve
CT CTnow.com (Connecticut)
CW Cable & Wireless (now owned by Vodafone)
CX Consulting Exchange
 
DB Deutsche Bank
DC Deloitte Consulting
DE CentralNic (Germany)
DF DataFaction
DG Data General (part of EMC)
DH D+H USA Corp (sold by Darwin Holdings Inc.)
DI Digital Instruments
DJ Dow Jones
DK Dorling Kindersley
DN Verio Inc.
DQ Dairy Queen
DT DirectLink Technologies
DU Emirates Integrated Telecommunications (Dubai)
DV Digital Video
DW DiamondWare
 
EA Electronic Arts
EB Encyclopaedia Britannica
EF EF Education
EI Economists Incorporated
EM Essential Markets
EU CentralNic (European Union)
EY Ernst & Young
 
FA Faradise
FB Facebook (bought from American Farm Bureau for US$8.5m)
FC Fundamental Consultants (that's us!)
FD Financial Dynamics
FE Fabricating Engineers
FF Faraday Future (bought from Bank of America (First Franklin) for US$1.4m, and before that from Forefront Inc.)
FI Fisher Investments
FJ Fulbright & Jaworski
FK Flack & Kurtz
FM fm.com
FN CNNfn
FO Fundamental Objects
FP Friends Provident (sold by Fischer & Porter Engineering)
FR Fish & Richardson
FS Fourth Shift
FT Financial Times
FU Fu Associates
FX Bridge Information Systems
 
GA General Atomics
GB CentralNic (Great Britain)
GC Globalware Corp
GD General Dynamics
GE General Electric
GF Goebel Fixture Company
GG gg.com
GI General Instrument (part of Motorola)
GJ Graham & James (part of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey)
GL GL Communications
GM General Motors
GO Walt Disney
GP Georgia-Pacific
GQ GQ Magazine
GS Goldman Sachs
GT Grant Thornton
GU Guardian Newspaper
GX GX Group
 
HA Heritage Auctions
HC Harper Collins Publishers
HE Hurrican Electric Internet Services
HF Hellman & Friedman
HH Hecker & Harriman (now Hecker Law Group)
HI Hitachi Software
HK SARNic (Hong Kong)
HL Houlihan Lokey
HM Hennes & Mauritz
HP Hewlett Packard
HQ HQ Global Workplaces
HR HR.com
HU CentralNic (Hungary)
HW Harvard-Westlake School
HX HX.com
 
IB IB Domains
IC IC.net
ID Intrinsic Development
IE Intelligent Environments
IF Intelligent Finance
IG IG Group (bought for US$4.7m in 2013)
II Infinite Ink
IK IK.com
IN IN.com India
IO IOCOM
IP IP.com
IQ NewWorldIQ
IR Integrated Research
IV In-Vision Communications
IW Internet World
   
JC Journal Communications
JD JD.com
JH Johnson & Higgins (now Marsh)
JJ Johnson & Johnson
JM Johns Manville
JQ Johnny Quest (Warner Brothers, pending)
JR J&R
JS JS Group (Pakistan)
JT Japan Tobacco
JV J.V. Manufacturing, Inc.
JW Jackson Walker
   
KA Ka (Cirque de Soleil)
KB Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & partners
KC Kennedy Carter
KI KI Furniture
KJ Kendall Jackson
KL K&L Gates
KO Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO)
KP Kaiser Permanente
KQ Knowledge Quest
KT KT (Korea Telecom)
KV Knape & Vogt
KW Keller Williams Realty
KX Kx Systems
KY K-Y (McNeil-PPC Inc., Johnson & Johnson)
 
LA LA.com (Los Angeles)
LB LBrands
LC Luxury Collection (Starwood Hotels)
LD Loren Data
LF Lebhar-Friedman
LG LG Corp
LH Lufthansa
LI Legatum Institute
LM Liggett & Meyers (L&M) cigarettes (Philip Morris)
LQ La Quinta
LR Lasselle Ramsay
LU Libraries Unlimited
LV Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society
LW Latham & Watkins
LX LX TV
   
MA Morris Adjmi Architects
MC Mercury Computer Systems
MD MD.com
ME Mobile Me (Apple)
MI Mi (bought by Xiaomi for US$3.6m in 2014)
MK Morrison-Knudsen (acquired by Washington Group)
ML Merrill Lynch
MM Minnesota MicroNet
MP Montgomery Pfeifer
MQ MultiQuip
MS Morgan Stanley
MT Mettler Toledo
MV MV Communications
MW MWH Global, Inc. (fka Montgomery Watson)
 
NC NCSoft
ND Neuro Dimension
NI National Instruments Corporation
NK NK Seeds (Syngenta)
NM Northwestern Mutual
NO CentralNic (Norway)
NQ NQ Mobile
NR Numerical Recipes Software
NS NS.com domain registrars
NT Nortel Networks
NU Northeast Utilities
NV NV.com domain registry
NZ New Zealand on the Web
   
OA OA International
OC OpenConnect
OK OK movie guide
OM Nasdaq OMX
ON ON.com
OP OP (Walmart)
OV OVguide
OZ OZ Communications
 
PA PA Industries
PB Pitney Bowes
PC Intel
PE Press Enterprise
PF Pike & Fischer
PG Procter & Gamble
PH Politzer & Haney
PM Philip Morris (NYSE:PM)
PN PN LLC (Paul Niedermeyer)
PO Physicians Online
PQ PQ Corp (fka Philadelphia Quartz)
PR PR.com
PS Powerline Systems
PT Performance Technologies
PV PacketVideo
PW PriceWaterhouseCoopers
PX Paradox Development
PZ PZ Internet
 
QA QA Limited
QC CentralNic (Quebec)
QG QuadGraphics
QH Quinton Hazell
QI QI (British TV show)
QJ QJ Cloth Baby Diapers
QQ QQ.com
QS Quacquarelli Symonds
QU Quality Unlimited AB
QW Quickware
QZ Quartz
 
RA Rheumatoid Arthiritis (Abbott Laboratories)
RB Reckitt Benckiser (acquired from Robert Bentley, Inc.)
RC Robinson & Cole
RD Reader's Digest
RH Renkus-Heinz
RJ Royal Jordanian
RK Hauser-Ross Eye Institute (Radial Keratectomy)
RM RM plc (fka Research Machines)
RN RN.com
RQ RQ Interactive
RR Road Runner
RU CentralNic (Russia)
RV RV.com (Dometic Corp)
RW Rogers & Wells (part of Clifford Chance)
RX Rx.com
RY Radley Yeldar
RZ Rhizome
 
SA CentralNic (Saudi Arabia)
SB Smithkline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline)
SC Standard Chartered (acquired from Superconnect)
SD Summit Design
SE CentralNic (Sweden)
SF Software Factory
SG Select Group
SH SH.com
SI Sports Illustrated
SJ Springer & Jacoby
SK SK group
SL Sherrill-Lubinski
SM SM Investments
SQ SoftQuad Software
ST STMicroelectronics
SV SiliconValley.com
SW Schopf & Weiss
SX SXC Health Solutions
 
TA TA Associates
TB Tomlinson Black
TC Townshend Computer Tools
TD TD Bank Financial Group
TE Tyco Electronics
TI Texas Instruments
TJ Tech Journal
TK Twin Kings Communications
TM TM Advertising
TN Tuft & Needle
TP Thermo Fisher Scientific
TQ TQ Education & Training Ltd
TR Telecommunications Reports
TT TT.com
TV TV.com
TY TY.com
 
UA Under Armour (NFL Properties LLC)
UC UC Group
UD United Domains
UK CentralNic (United Kingdom)
UL Underwriters Laboratories
UP Union Pacific
UR United Rentals, Inc.
US CentralNic (United States)
UY CentralNic (Uraguay)
   
VE Visual Engineering
VF Vanity Fair
VM Very Memorable
VP Varco Pruden Buildings
VQ Vision Quest
VU Virtual Universe
VW Volkswagen
VX VX CAD/CAM
   
WB Warner Brothers
WC Williams & Connolly
WD Western Digital (was Western Design)
WF Wells Fargo (mobile)
WH W&H Dentalwerk
WI Waterloo Industries
WJ WJ Communications (acquired by TriQint Semiconductor)
WK Wieden & Kennedy
WL Westfal-Larsen
WM Waste Management
WN World News
WP WordPress (bought from Yahoo)
WR Westar Energy
WU Western Union
WY Weyerhauser (NYSE:WY)
XB Expand Beyond
XL XL.com
XM XM Global
XN XN Holdings (part of Henner Group)
XO XO Communications
 
YP Yellow Pages (AT&T) (purchased for US$3.85m on 5-Nov-08)
YR Young & Rubicam
YZ YZ.com
 
ZA CentralNic (South Africa)
ZF ZF Friedrichshafen AG