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  1. 16-11-2007, 15:02 #1
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    Default The world's first domain name

    What was the world's first .com?


    Just what would the web site hosting with the world's longest domain name be without mentioning what the world's first dot com was

    Now we are sure many of you think you know and some really do know, but those that think it was think.com better think again, think.com was the third...we think.

    The DNS was created in 1984 and in 1985 top level domains were defined. The first top level domains were COM, ORG, EDU, GOV, MIL and ccTLD.

    In April 1985 cmu.edu, purdue.edu, rice.edu and ucla.edu were the first registered domain names with the .edu extention.

    The first .gov was css.gov and was registered in June 1985.

    The first .org was mitre.org and was registered in July 1985.

    Now for the first .com which was registered on March 15 1985 and it was symbolics.com which still happens to be up and running, although not much to look at. Now for the first 100 registered domains:SYMBOLICS.COM
    BBN.COM
    THINK.COM
    MCC.COM
    DEC.COM
    NORTHROP.COM
    XEROX.COM
    SRI.COM
    HP.COM
    BELLCORE.COM
    IBM.COM
    SUN.COM
    INTEL.COM
    TI.COM
    ATT.COM
    GMR.COM
    TEK.COM
    FMC.COM
    UB.COM
    BELL-ATL.COM
    GE.COM
    GREBYN.COM
    ISC.COM
    NSC.COM
    STARGATE.COM
    BOEING.COM
    ITCORP.COM
    SIEMENS.COM
    PYRAMID.COM
    ALPHACDC.COM
    BDM.COM
    FLUKE.COM
    INMET.COM
    KESMAI.COM
    MENTOR.COM
    NEC.COM
    RAY.COM
    ROSEMOUNT.COM
    VORTEX.COM
    ALCOA.COM
    GTE.COM
    ADOBE.COM
    AMD.COM
    DAS.COM
    DATA-IO.COM
    OCTOPUS.COM
    PORTAL.COM
    TELTONE.COM
    3COM.COM
    AMDAHL.COM
    CCUR.COM
    CI.COM
    CONVERGENT.COM
    DG.COM
    PEREGRINE.COM
    QUAD.COM
    SQ.COM
    TANDY.COM
    TTI.COM
    UNISYS.COM
    CGI.COM
    CTS.COM
    SPDCC.COM
    APPLE.COM
    NMA.COM
    PRIME.COM
    PHILIPS.COM
    DATACUBE.COM
    KAI.COM
    TIC.COM
    VINE.COM
    NCR.COM
    CISCO.COM
    RDL.COM
    SLB.COM
    PARCPLACE.COM
    UTC.COM
    IDE.COM
    TRW.COM
    UNIPRESS.COM
    DUPONT.COM
    LOCKHEED.COM
    ROSETTA.COM
    TOAD.COM
    QUICK.COM
    ALLIED.COM
    DSC.COM
    SCO.COM
    GENE.COM
    KCCS.COM
    SPECTRA.COM
    WLK.COM
    MENTAT.COM
    WYSE.COM
    CFG.COM
    MARBLE.COM
    CAYMAN.COM
    ENTITY.COM
    KSR.COM
    NYNEXST.COMMarch 15 1985
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    July 11 1985
    September 30 1985
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    January 17 1986
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    September 29 1986
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    October 27 1986
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    May 27 1987
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    October 14 1987
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    It took more that two and half years to register 100 domain names, and I believe that we are registering more than 100 domain names per day. Pretty awesome isn't it? What do you guys think?
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    Quote Originally Posted by goodone View Post
    I believe that we are registering more than 100 domain names per day. Pretty awesome isn't it? What do you guys think?
    I would say 100 domains per minute. check webhosting.info for more details on how many domains are registered daily. 30 - 40 domains are registered by eukhost daily so 100 domains is too less.
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    Yes, I would more say 1000's of domains are registered a day .
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    This is really a very good info. Thanks for sharing.
    However I was just wondering if anyone of those are available today (atleast for SALE).
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  5. 17-11-2007, 14:35 #5
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    I don't know if any of these domain name are available and I don't know if they are for sale. Maybe you could check them one by one to see if they are available or for sale. This will take alot of time but it can be worth it depending on what you will use it for, also you will have bragging rights to say that you have one of the odlest domain name ever registered.
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    lol.

    I doubt any of the listed domains are not registered but may be for sale - anyone up for buying Intel.com?
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    I have had few domain names in he past, the oldest I sold for silly sum to a large company that had my initials. Then they got longer until I found another suitable short one about 10 years ago - d.tc

    Can anyone match that for length - it must be meaningful.

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    I went to railsconf Europe this year (was in September).

    And they had a Roy Fielding talking who is, and has been for some time, doing a lot of work in http protocols and such (he wrote his university dissertation on REST, and Rails is being continually improved to make use of the REST paradigm).

    He told us the story of how he chose to do that dissertation:

    He was looking for something to do, but couldn't decide. He'd heard about this world wide web thing, and had been browsing it to see what it was all about. So he goes and "browses the web", the ENTIRE WWW. Comes back an hour later, and notices there are two more websites (there were like 60 or something at the time), and decides that it's probably going to be quite interesting, since it's growing so fast (that's over 3% growth in an hour - imagine if your savings did that!).

    It still amazes me to think that when I was born, there was no internet, now concept of WWW, no HTTP. Whenever I want to find a new place to go out, or want to buy something, the first thing I do is look it up on the web, I honestly don't know how I did it before the web was popular.

    RailsConf Europe 2007 • September 17, 2007 - September 19, 2007 • Berlin, Germany - that is a link to the presentations. The one I'm talking about was called The Rest of REST, by Roy T. Fielding. It's has some technical stuff, but the first bit has some interesting hisrtory along the lines of what I mentioned above. If you look at it, look at the third slide, which shows a graph of internet growth (number of websites) up until Jun 95, and has an estimate of the number in sep this year. I can't remember exactly what he said, but I think it was along the lines of "If I wanted the graph to actually show all the way up to now, I need the projector screen to go about 20k up into space!".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ben View Post
    lol.

    I doubt any of the listed domains are not registered but may be for sale - anyone up for buying Intel.com?
    Yep, I'll just open my safe with a few billion in it .
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