As we move forward on the road to General Availability, which will start on Monday, Nov 21st at 15.00 UTC, we’d like to take a moment to explain the process behind the decision to activate domains in our Founder’s Program while reserving some others. Founder Program, or Qualified Launch Phase (QLP)
As a registry, we had the option to activate up to 100 domain names, either for our use or to give to third parties to promote .blog.
We offered some these domains to third parties, and you can see a showcase of these sites on our Founders page. We also decided to offer a list of 25 very generic domains to WordPress.com, so that they could be shared for free among millions of users instead of being owned by single entities.
Reserved Domains
Reserved domains are domain names that are not registered, and cannot be registered until released. As a registry, we can decide to reserve as many domains as we want.
We reserved all one-, two- and three-character domains from being registered by anyone and will probably release them in the future. In addition, we allowed employees of our parent company, Automattic, many of whom are bloggers and passionate about blogging, to reserve a single
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/13867/about-reserved-blog-domains-automattic
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/about-reserved-blog-domains-automattic/
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