World's First 100 Domain Names

[.tv]

World's First 100 domain names.

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
12. 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
13. 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
14. 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
16. 08-May-1986 GMR.COM
17. 08-May-1986 TEK.COM
18. 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM
19. 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM
20. 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM
21. 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM
22. 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM
23. 05-Aug-1986 ISC.COM
24. 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM
25. 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM
26. 02-Sep-1986 BOEING.COM
27. 18-Sep-1986 ITCORP.COM
28. 29-Sep-1986 SIEMENS.COM
29. 18-Oct-1986 PYRAMID.COM
30. 27-Oct-1986 ALPHACDC.COM
31. 27-Oct-1986 BDM.COM
32. 27-Oct-1986 FLUKE.COM
33. 27-Oct-1986 INMET.COM
34. 27-Oct-1986 KESMAI.COM
35. 7-Oct-1986 MENTOR.COM
36. 7-Oct-1986 NEC.COM
37. 27-Oct-1986 RAY.COM
38. 27-Oct-1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM
39. 27-Oct-1986 VORTEX.COM
40. 05-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM
41. 05-Nov-1986 GTE.COM
42. 17-Nov-1986 ADOBE.COM
43. 17-Nov-1986 AMD.COM
44. 17-Nov-1986 DAS.COM
45. 17-Nov-1986 DATA-IO.COM
46. 17-Nov-1986 OCTOPUS.COM
47. 17-Nov-1986 PORTAL.COM
48. 17-Nov-1986 TELTONE.COM
49. 11-Dec-1986 3COM.COM
50. 11-Dec-1986 AMDAHL.COM
51. 11-Dec-1986 CCUR.COM
52. 11-Dec-1986 CI.COM
53. 11-Dec-1986 CONVERGENT.COM
54. 11-Dec-1986 DG.COM
55. 11-Dec-1986 PEREGRINE.COM
56. 11-Dec-1986 QUAD.COM
57. 11-Dec-1986 SQ.COM
58. 11-Dec-1986 TANDY.COM
59. 11-Dec-1986 TTI.COM
60. 11-Dec-1986 UNISYS.COM
61. 19-Jan-1987 CGI.COM
62. 19-Jan-1987 CTS.COM
63. 19-Jan-1987 SPDCC.COM
64. 19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COM
65. 04-Mar-1987 NMA.COM
66. 04-Mar-1987 PRIME.COM
67. 04-Apr-1987 PHILIPS.COM
68. 23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM
69. 23-Apr-1987 KAI.COM
70. 23-Apr-1987 TIC.COM
71. 23-Apr-1987 VINE.COM
72. 30-Apr-1987 NCR.COM
73. 14-May-1987 CISCO.COM
74. 14-May-1987 RDL.COM
75. 20-May-1987 SLB.COM
76. 27-May-1987 PARCPLACE.COM
77. 27-May-1987 UTC.COM
78. 26-Jun-1987 IDE.COM
79. 09-Jul-1987 TRW.COM
80. 13-Jul-1987 UNIPRESS.COM
81. 27-Jul-1987 DUPONT.COM
82. 27-Jul-1987 LOCKHEED.COM
83. 28-Jul-1987 ROSETTA.COM
84. 18-Aug-1987 TOAD.COM
85. 31-Aug-1987 QUICK.COM
86. 03-Sep-1987 ALLIED.COM
87. 03-Sep-1987 DSC.COM
88. 03-Sep-1987 SCO.COM
89. 22-Sep-1987 GENE.COM
90. 22-Sep-1987 KCCS.COM
91. 22-Sep-1987 SPECTRA.COM
92. 22-Sep-1987 WLK.COM
93. 30-Sep-1987 MENTAT.COM
94. 14-Oct-1987 WYSE.COM
95. 02-Nov-1987 CFG.COM
96. 09-Nov-1987 MARBLE.COM
97. 16-Nov-1987 CAYMAN.COM
97. 16-Nov-1987 ENTITY.COM
99. 24-Nov-1987 KSR.COM
100. 30-Nov-1987 NYNEXST.COM

Reps appreciated.

Surprisingly, giants like sex.com, poker.com, casino.com, realestate.com, loan.com, business.com, internet.com, and tv.com were not registered at that time! :hehe:

 

[bricio]

we can see 3 nice things in your post...

1) it took 2 years and a half to reach 100 names (considering no one is missing);
2) registrations were made by companies mainly;
3) generic words werent so good (thats very very strange)

rep added

 

[Gene]

I like #89

 

[owntype]

68. 23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM

This belongs to a DP member.

 

[itsbusinessbaby]

'85, jesus that's some time back, domain-wise.

i thought registrations happened/started in the mid 90s.
the glory days of domaining was 94-2000...

after 2000, it has become very mainstream and popularized.

 

[StoneRoses]

Very interesting,

Thanks

 

[Smiler]

'85, jesus that's some time back, domain-wise.

i thought registrations happened/started in the mid 90s.
the glory days of domaining was 94-2000...

after 2000, it has become very mainstream and popularized.

I also thought that domain names came out in 1993. I didn't think it was way back in 1986.

 

[Kate]

This is #1: enea.se

Domän- och kontaktsökning

Domänen är upptagen, du ser nuvarande registreringsuppgifter nedan
Detaljerad information om domännamnet
Domännamn enea.se
Innehavare eneada0702-00001
Administrativ kontakt domain0702-00072
Teknisk kontakt domain0702-00072
Avimottagare domain0702-00072
Status active
Skapad 1983-04-07
Senast ändrad 2007-08-16
Deaktiveringsdatum 2007-12-31
Namnserver edns01.ports.net
edns03.ports.net
Status ok

 

[bricio]

wow... ENEA.se is really old

 

[.tv]

This is #1: enea.se

I searched only the TLD registrations. Not sure about any cctld registrations.

Thanks for sharing this information.

 

[sashas]

I believe mit.edu, berkeley.edu, etc.were ahead of most the names here.

Sex.com was regged in 1994 I believe.

btw, go to Tit.com...the owner has an interesting story about how he regged the name (he wanted to reg his last name, which begins with Tit. It'd been regged, so he regged Tit.com instead. Weird...a last name was regged, but a super valuable name like Tit.com wasn't)

btw, was UB.com regged just randomly, or was it regged as initials for University of Buffalo? I ask this because I go to Univ. of Buffalo...

 

[Kate]

I believe mit.edu, berkeley.edu, etc.were ahead of most the names here.

They are quite old as well.
berkeley.edu Domain record activated: 24-Apr-1985
mit.edu Domain record activated: 23-May-1985

 

[Michelle]

I like #89

Lol, Loving the new pic with the beard :hehe:




Ive seen this list before but always nice to look over again

 

[italiandragon]

Till when domain registration was free?

 

[Peter]

btw, go to Tit.com...the owner has an interesting story about how he regged the name (he wanted to reg his last name, which begins with Tit. It'd been regged, so he regged Tit.com instead. Weird...a last name was regged, but a super valuable name like Tit.com wasn't)

But back when he registered the domain it was not valuable.

 

[Kate]

I thought I would bump this thread with additional information :tu:

I wanted to dig into the case of enea.se and asked the Swedish registry. Their reply below.

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Hi Kate,

We are glad that you asked the question, because it forced us to make
some digging into our Internet history!

To start with, the name enea was probably expressed like:

!mcvax!enea!ber

Which was the name registered byt he time. This was an effect of the
fact that Bjorn Eriksen (ber) was appointed to allocate IP addresses
or maybe an effect that they actually asked for an IP address for
Enea, and got the name as a result.

MCVAX had IP early and we wrote *.se through UUCP, we consider it to
be seismo!mcvax!ena!ttds to reach the Swedish Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH).

We had MX records for .SE before we got name servers that could
understand IP (which was implemented as 56 K sattelite connection to
JVNC)....

So, in short, enea was registered, but not as a domain since the
domain name system wasn't invented yet.

Kind regards
Customer service
.SE (The Internet Infrastructure Foundation) PO Box 7399, SE-103 91
Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: +46 8 452 35 00, Fax: +46 8 452 35 02
E-mail: ##############
Web: www.iis.se


- -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
Från: Katherine [mailto:###########]
Skickat: den 1 april 2008 00:24
Till: Kundtjanst
Ämne: status of enea.se

Hello,

I would like to receive clarification on domain name enea.se please.
According to whois the name was created on 1983-04-07, so it could be
the oldest domain name known.
But the .se TLD was only added to the root on 04-September-1986
according to IANA.

Can you explain the discrepancy ?

Kind regards,
Kate


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But there is more
As someone pointed out in another thread there is a .nl domain which shows a creation date of 1980. I guess it was not registered as a fully-fledged domain back then.

 

[Imran Khalid]

[13. 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM ]

and i am the owner of INT3L.COM !

 

[james2002]

I wish I could get time machine to go back to 1985.

 

[MaxMcool]

That's amazing, anybody know what a domain name registration was worth in 1985?
I sure paid a lot for my first dot coms.

 

[michaeldotcom]

I thought I would bump this thread with additional information :tu:
I wanted to dig into the case of enea.se and asked the Swedish registry. Their reply below.

Kate, thanks for sharing their reply with us. It's a fascinating piece of information.