Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Oldest Domain Names

Here’s a list of the first .com domain names in history (of course, the internet precedes the world wide web, which is why these domains are all from the 80s):

1.	15-Mar-1985	SYMBOLICS.COM
2.	24-Apr-1985	BBN.COM
3.	24-May-1985	THINK.COM
4.	11-Jul-1985	MCC.COM
5.	30-Sep-1985	DEC.COM
6.	07-Nov-1985	NORTHROP.COM
7.	09-Jan-1986	XEROX.COM
8.	17-Jan-1986	SRI.COM
9.	03-Mar-1986	HP.COM
10.	05-Mar-1986	BELLCORE.COM
11.	19-Mar-1986	IBM.COM
11.	19-Mar-1986	SUN.COM
13.	25-Mar-1986	INTEL.COM
13.	25-Mar-1986	TI.COM
15.	25-Apr-1986	ATT.COM
16.	08-May-1986	GMR.COM
16.	08-May-1986	TEK.COM
18.	10-Jul-1986	FMC.COM
18.	10-Jul-1986	UB.COM
20.	05-Aug-1986	BELL-ATL.COM
20.	05-Aug-1986	GE.COM

Andrew Moulden, who provided the list, in his blog remarks:

“Let’s go back exactly 17 years – to November 30th 1987. You want to register a domain name. To date, only 99 .com domains have ever been registered. Yours will be the 100th. So, what do you get?

Music.com? It’s available! Games.com? Available! Loans.com? Drugs.com? Cars.com? All unregistered! Take your pick.”

Which name would you have registered in 1987?

[Via Boing Boing.]

Oldest Domain Names by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (14)

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