The first domain ever registered?

[deadserious]

Anyone know what the first domain name ever registered is??

 

[DarkDevil]

Symbolics.com - Registered on March 15th 1985 by Symbolics Technology Incorporated.

 

[deadserious]

Oh I figured it would be some .edu name or something. :D

 

[deadserious]

Here's a list of the first 10 domains ever registered:

SYMBOLICS.COM
SYMBOLICS TECHNOLOGY, INC 3/15/85

BBN.COM
BBN CORPORATION 4/24/85

CMU.EDU
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY 4/24/85

PURDUE.EDU
PURDUE UNIVERSITY 4/24/85

RICE.EDU
RICE UNIVERSITY 4/24/85

BERKELEY.EDU
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY 4/24/85

UCLA.EDU
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES 4/24/85

RUTGERS.EDU
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY 4/24/85

MIT.EDU
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 5/23/85

THINK.COM
THINKING MACHINES CORPORATION 5/24/85


Other interesting Web sites within the first 100 domain names registered:

NASA.GOV - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

XEROX.COM - Xerox Corporation

BELLCORE.COM - Bell Communications Research

SUN.COM - Sun Microsystems, Inc.

INTEL.COM - Intel Corporation

ATT.COM - AT&T

IBM.COM - IBM Corporation

I'm still looking for a list of the first 100 domains registered, so if anyone finds one please post it here.

 

[daisha]

interesting.

 

[Bashar]

deadserious i know this post is old but here is a full list of first domains which registered ever
http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/contrib/potluck/Net-Services/net-directory/domain-info/domain-info.txt

 

[GamingHybrid]

www.namefaqs.con

GOD BLESS

 

[pynchon]

Just wandering what did a .com cost back then.

Thanks

 

[Shaggy]

Weren't they free??

 

[cogeek]

I wish i was born then to buy domain names!

 

[freak]

Hmmm...

Where is ICANN.org on the list?

 

[RJ]

The first name ever registered was indeed SYMBOLICS.COM, but a little known fact is that NORDU.NET is actually the oldest existing domain name. It was created by the registry before domains were able to be registered and it still exists in use to this day.

http://www.namefaqs.com/question/qstId/25.html

 

[Darkfire001]

Free Domains Names :o

 

[Scott]

Free Domains Names :o

:kickass: :kickass:

 

[matrics]

Of course, there must have been some criteria for who could get a particular name. You couldn't just go and register ibm.com if you weren't related to them.

Hmm... *wishes he had a time machine...*

 

[HFear]

It's amazing how long it took for the first 100 domain names to be registered (considering the fact that domain names were free at that time)!

 

[1rrr1]

Here's a list of the first 10 domains ever registered:

SYMBOLICS.COM
SYMBOLICS TECHNOLOGY, INC 3/15/85

BBN.COM
BBN CORPORATION 4/24/85

CMU.EDU
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY 4/24/85

PURDUE.EDU
PURDUE UNIVERSITY 4/24/85

RICE.EDU
RICE UNIVERSITY 4/24/85

BERKELEY.EDU
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY 4/24/85

UCLA.EDU
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES 4/24/85

RUTGERS.EDU
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY 4/24/85

MIT.EDU
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 5/23/85

THINK.COM
THINKING MACHINES CORPORATION 5/24/85


Other interesting Web sites within the first 100 domain names registered:

NASA.GOV - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

XEROX.COM - Xerox Corporation

BELLCORE.COM - Bell Communications Research

SUN.COM - Sun Microsystems, Inc.

INTEL.COM - Intel Corporation

ATT.COM - AT&T

IBM.COM - IBM Corporation

I'm still looking for a list of the first 100 domains registered, so if anyone finds one please post it here.

cool list, never knew it would start at 85.

 

[middlebe]

wow

very kool list, deadserious :gl: