Does anyone know what year domains first began to get registered ?

[gazzip]

Any ideas on which year it was - I'm pretty new to computers & domains

What is the computers jurassic period :blink:
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[stscac]

1984

Free til 1995

-Steve

 

[faisj]

October 1984 – RFC 920 establishes 7 generic “top level domains” (gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org and .gov) to provide domain space for corporations, non-profits, schools, networks, US government offices and the US military

 

[gazzip]

thanks guys, I just got a 1997 name and was just wondering, so I guess it is oldish but not a fossil ! :hehe:

Cheers



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[Kate]

To the best of my knowledge the 1st domain is not a .com but as .net as Steve said elsewhere:

NORDU.NET Creation Date: 01-jan-1985

Some ccTLDs were delegated shortly after, like .se in 1986
http://twobirds.com/English/publications/articles/Sweden_regulation_national_top_level_domain.cfm
However, NORDU.NET is probably the oldest of all domain names.
I believe DNS was devised and 1983 and the first DNS servers were put in place around 1984.
Most people associate domain names with the Web, which emerged around 1993 but corporations/universities were already using other stuff like e-mail or FTP well before

 

[netzilla]

1984