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People are queueing up to take over any domain with moderate amount of traffic. Since the expiry time is public, there are lists of soon-expiring domains. This is way worse for a heavy traffic domain, and probably ridiculous for x.org.

You can't register a single-letter .org anymore.

So they are currently grandfathered in, and as soon as the record expires it's a dead domain?

yep

But they are being "awarded" [1]. So if it expires, maybe they could get it back since they're a non-profit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom...

That's an interesting question given that one letter domain names for .org are generally not available, x.org was grandfathered in.

My first thought was: "Get a bunch of folks with affinity for x.org to variously try and pick it up when released, and then gift it to them."