100 Oldest Dot Com Domains

James Joyner · Thursday, January 6, 2005 · 3 Comments

100 oldest dot com domains (Jottings.com)

Rank Create date Domain name
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
11= 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
13= 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
13= 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
[...]
100. 30-Nov-1987 NYNEXST.COM

via Radley Balko

What’s especially interesting to me is that it took 2-1/2 years to register the first 100. Heck, only ten went out the first year! Nowadays, people will buy up all the permutions of a site name on the merest hint that someone might want it.

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Maggie says:

Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 16:43

“Nowadays, people will buy up all the permutions of a site name on the merest hint that someone might want it.”

HOW RIGHT YOU ARE!

http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=4432

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bigjim.org says:

Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 19:07

100 oldest dot com domains
This is kinda of neat. The 100 oldest dot com domains. [via]

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Nerf-Coated World says:

Friday, January 7, 2005 at 11:16

The 100 oldest dot-coms
I thought dot-coms had only been around since 1990. I was wrong: 1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM 11= 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM 13= 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM 20= 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM 40= 05-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM 64. 19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COMIt’s fascinating that it took a f…

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