Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the .COM gTLD

[the_poet]

Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the .COM gTLD with a Policy Forum and Gala and has also set up a website with a timeline of the development of .COM. The first domain name, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15th, 1985 and is today owned by domain investor Aron Meystedt.

In order to celebrate the anniversary the main sponsor and registry operator Verisign, will be hosting a Policy Forum in Washington DC on March 16th and will end with gala in San Francisco on May 26th. The company will also announce the creation of four $75,000 research grants that will be awarded to those who show the most promise to shape the next 25 years of .com.

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[GreenGambler]

Wow.. 25 years already.. amazing how time passes so quickly.

 

[Jeff]

Looove the mighty .COM! :hearts: :imho:

PS. Thanks for the post.
Regards,
Jeff

 

[lll]

wish i had a 25 year old .com

:P

 

[the_poet]

Symbolics.com turns 26 today.

 

[dgridley]

That far back I don't think I'd even heard of the WWW or .com.. I was running a bbs in the 80's so you'd think I'd have heard something.