showcase What is the oldest domain you own?

[HotDomainSales]

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com. It was registered 1985, to Symbolics Inc., a computer systems company in Cambridge, Mass.

I think it will be interesting to see who owns the oldest domain here on NamePros.

The oldest domain in my portfolio is:

• PlasmaScreen.co.uk (1997) which is a whopping 18 years old (nearly as old as me!)

Post yours, let's see who owns the oldest domain on this forum :D

 

[OIOF71]

copyleft.com (1997)
I registerd it.

 

[thekiller]

My oldest is RearProjection (.) com 18 years old.

I also have several 15 years old domains.

 

[Abdillahi Abdillahi]

Wunno.com 14
HostingArticles.com 13.5
Emblems.net 13.5

 

[domainbartender]

The oldest one I own is tamiment (dot com). From 1997.

 

[The Domain Wizard]

I have MidMac (dot) com 1996-02-15 - 19 Years old.
Try to sell it to the company who own's the .net version a company in Qatar, but not much luck yet.

 

[Shams]

D C O B dot com. 1998

 

[Smarttrader]

astonvilla.net

Creation Date: 1999-01-10T05:00:00.0Z

16 years

 

[iAchilles]

P S I D a t a - 1994. It would make for a cool mini site for a db of various tyre pressures among other possibilities, I may develop it. I nabbed it cheap enough on NS, previously an Indian based tech company.

As a side note, I'll never send an outbound email again, it's phone calls from here on in. I set up a catchall on the mail server and I get a minimum of 1,500 emails per day, to think my outbound emails get caught up in that cluster**** of spam doesn't fill me with confidence that my mails are even being read.

 

[Recons.Com]

We just need to agree to disagree.
If there is some sense in saying that a name registered 20 years ago when more high quality names ( one word, 2 keyword.. ) were available could be more valuable it needs to be pointed out that, taken on its own, the latter is a very blank statement.

A crappy domain registered 20 years ago and always renewed is still a crappy domain.

Under and SEO perspective an aged domain that has never been developed it is pretty much as good as a freshly registered one; not my words but from one of the big guy at Google.
What search engines look for is the age of the website not the age of the domain.

I am a domain investor and I look for others things before age but I guess that anyone is free to make their own choices.
Just a few years ago having and EMD was a must to rank.and domainers were saying that such thing would have never passed; it took no more than a couple of Google algorithm updates to make them close to useless.

That is why I wrote about probabilities, not certainties.

Yes, probably, 70% of 15+ year old names are crappy. But so are 98% of 1-2 year olds.

That would mean 15 times higher probability of a good name.

And of course it helps the case of the older names that universally recognized better names were taken long time ago.

 

[420domainer]

I think my oldest name is 420Festival.com from 2004....meh.

 

[Nsmith91]

Most of my old names, I unfortunately let drop from early 2000's. My oldest now is Flza.com. reg 2005.

 

[ODST.com]

StrandUK.com 09/09/1993
22 years old

 

[HotDomainSales]

I find it intriguing that the first domain ever registered was Symbolics.com in 1985, I mean if that was me I would have registered a big list of generic words like help.com website.com and so on without even thinking about resale value in the future.

 

[ODST.com]

I find it intriguing that the first domain ever registered was Symbolics.com in 1985, I mean if that was me I would have registered a big list of generic words like help.com website.com and so on without even thinking about resale value in the future.

I find it weird that some of the oldest domains on here are ones that I don't feel really have too much value. Take mine for instance. StrandUK? I mean what the heck is that? lol

 

[marsi]

1JO.com (2000)

 

[JayJay]

NetPins () com 1999
grabbed it in gd expired iirc, might drop it though I dunno

 

[headsupp]

Being holding off on reg'n this one but just completed the purchase. Not sure what I am going to do with it. Just let it sit and age and ripe more with age?
Nirvonics.com
Oct 1990 - 25 years old.

It seems that as of that date of Oct 1990, only 1151 domains existed.

 

[TheWatcher]

My website Telebit.com 1989, one of the oldest domains I have.
Value continue to increase, now the .org is a bitcoin wallet.

 

[ODST.com]

Being holding off on reg'n this one but just completed the purchase. Not sure what I am going to do with it. Just let it sit and age and ripe more with age?
Nirvonics.com
Oct 1990 - 25 years old.

It seems that as of that date of Oct 1990, only 1151 domains existed.

This was my theory in purchasing mine as well. There are only a limited number of these old names still with their age intact making them valuable to collectors??? IDK that is my thought process anyways.

 

[Jason.tv]

My website Telebit.com 1989, one of the oldest domains I have.
Value continue to increase, now the .org is a bitcoin wallet.

Drops Mic, declared winner. I was playing Kings Quest and Leisure Suit Larry at this time.