100 Oldest .COM domain names

[A D]

100 Oldest .COM domain names - FYI

Create Date Domain Name
03/15/1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
04/24/1985 BBN.COM
05/24/1985 THINK.COM
07/11/1985 MCC.COM
09/30/1985 DEC.COM
11/07/1985 NORTHROP.COM
01/09/1986 XEROX.COM
01/17/1986 SRI.COM
03/03/1986 HP.COM
03/05/1986 BELLCORE.COM
03/19/1986 IBM.COM
03/19/1986 SUN.COM
03/25/1986 INTEL.COM
03/25/1986 TI.COM
04/25/1986 ATT.COM
05/08/1986 GMR.COM
05/08/1986 TEK.COM
07/10/1986 FMC.COM
07/10/1986 UB.COM
08/05/1986 BELL-ATL.COM
08/05/1986 GE.COM
08/05/1986 GREBYN.COM
08/05/1986 ISC.COM
08/05/1986 NSC.COM
08/05/1986 STARGATE.COM
09/02/1986 BOEING.COM
09/18/1986 ITCORP.COM
09/29/1986 SIEMENS.COM
10/18/1986 PYRAMID.COM
10/27/1986 ALPHACDC.COM
10/27/1986 BDM.COM
10/27/1986 FLUKE.COM
10/27/1986 INMET.COM
10/27/1986 KESMAI.COM
10/27/1986 MENTOR.COM
10/27/1986 NEC.COM
10/27/1986 RAY.COM
10/27/1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM
10/27/1986 VORTEX.COM
11/05/1986 ALCOA.COM
11/05/1986 GTE.COM
11/17/1986 ADOBE.COM
11/17/1986 AMD.COM
11/17/1986 DAS.COM
11/17/1986 DATA-IO.COM
11/17/1986 OCTOPUS.COM
11/17/1986 PORTAL.COM
11/17/1986 TELTONE.COM
12/11/1986 3COM.COM
12/11/1986 AMDAHL.COM
12/11/1986 CCUR.COM
12/11/1986 CI.COM
12/11/1986 CONVERGENT.COM
12/11/1986 DG.COM
12/11/1986 PEREGRINE.COM
12/11/1986 QUAD.COM
12/11/1986 SQ.COM
12/11/1986 TANDY.COM
12/11/1986 TTI.COM
12/11/1986 UNISYS.COM
01/19/1987 CGI.COM
01/19/1987 CTS.COM
01/19/1987 SPDCC.COM
02/19/1987 APPLE.COM
03/04/1987 NMA.COM
03/04/1987 PRIME.COM
04/04/1987 PHILIPS.COM
04/23/1987 DATACUBE.COM
04/23/1987 KAI.COM
04/23/1987 TIC.COM
04/23/1987 VINE.COM
04/30/1987 NCR.COM
05/14/1987 CISCO.COM
05/14/1987 RDL.COM
05/20/1987 SLB.COM
05/27/1987 PARCPLACE.COM
05/27/1987 UTC.COM
06/26/1987 IDE.COM
07/09/1987 TRW.COM
07/13/1987 UNIPRESS.COM
07/27/1987 DUPONT.COM
07/27/1987 LOCKHEED.COM
07/28/1987 ROSETTA.COM
08/18/1987 TOAD.COM
08/31/1987 QUICK.COM
09/03/1987 ALLIED.COM
09/03/1987 DSC.COM
09/03/1987 SCO.COM
09/22/1987 GENE.COM
09/22/1987 KCCS.COM
09/22/1987 SPECTRA.COM
09/22/1987 WLK.COM
09/30/1987 MENTAT.COM
10/14/1987 WYSE.COM
11/02/1987 CFG.COM
11/09/1987 MARBLE.COM
11/16/1987 CAYMAN.COM
11/16/1987 ENTITY.COM
11/24/1987 KSR.COM
11/30/1987 NYNEXST.COM

 

[owntag]

Fellow DNF members own at least 3 of them.

 

[stewie]

Fellow DNF members own at least 3 of them.

FYI: not me

some nice names in that list... :yo:

 

[katherine]

I nearly know that list by heart now

 

[CamMK27]

This fellow would have loved to owned at least a dozen best ones :-(

But this fellow was a kid when most of them were registered.

 

[rns621]

Wasn't octopus.com up for auction a few weeks ago? Does anyone know if that sold/for how much?

 

[Spex]

i wonder how it was in 1985. What was the "sales pitch" so to speak that got these companies to buy into the idea of the "internet" and to register their company names?

**I said sales pitch, even though I know the internet was nowhere near commercial back in 1985...I'm just having trouble finding the right word

 

[A D]

Wasn't octopus.com up for auction a few weeks ago? Does anyone know if that sold/for how much?

octopus.com still on flippa.

https://flippa.com/auctions/121800/Octopus-com---registered-since-1986

-=DCG=-

 

[katherine]

i wonder how it was in 1985. What was the "sales pitch" so to speak that got these companies to buy into the idea of the "internet" and to register their company names?

There was no WWW until the early 1990s. Back then the 'Internet' meant E-mail mostly.

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

The oldest I owned is 1989.

 

[silentg]

datacube is a domain marketplace

 

[timshady]

Interesting list. Yes, I just saw Octopus.com for sale in another thread.

 

[H2FC]

i wonder how it was in 1985. What was the "sales pitch" so to speak that got these companies to buy into the idea of the "internet" and to register their company names?

**I said sales pitch, even though I know the internet was nowhere near commercial back in 1985...I'm just having trouble finding the right word

I was there....I remember those days. It was mostly the companies who had a business connection with computers that were registering domain names. I wasn't one of them but I was on the sidelines and like many others had an interest and was mostly playing around with trying to understand how computers worked.

The problem with me and most others like me was we all thought it was too good to be true that all we had to do was register a few names and wait till the interest exploded and get rich. There was a lot of talk about potential changes to the way websites would be named and laws that would or could be enacted that would keep individuals from owning or profiting from domain names without also having a website linked to them. With all the uncertainly of what was to happen and the expense of registering names back then it was easy to be very afraid of risking your money and time. By the time I was convinced domain names would be profitable most of the good generic ones were gone. Besides that I had this crazy idea that fuelcells would be the next big thing and I was spending all my time keeping up with their latest news and registering as many of them as I could. LOL...

 

[Theo]

Happy reading.