Symbolics.com sold!

[tomsa]

XF.com Investments just bought symbolics.com the first domain name ever registered.

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More on DNJ : http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2009/dailyposts/20090826.htm

 

[Theo]

Congratulations to Patty Similien for brokering this one.




















Just kidding

 

[XF.com]

Happy to have it

 

[Domain Jedi]

Congrats on your purchase XF!

 

[-ET-]

Congrats on your purchase!. what was the closing price ?

 

[owntag]

Congrats!!!

I was one of the bidders, having negotiated with Symbolics Inc for months.
As I know there are many DNFers and NPers were interested in this sale. I was just a bit afraid to pay over $40k due to the potential TM issues. It's a great domain, part of the internet history!

Wish you the best of luck!

 

[XF.com]

Agreed not to disclose.

 

[Theo]

I was just a bit afraid to pay over $40k

Anything under $500,000 would be unacceptable.

 

[Tia Wood]

Congratulations, Aron. To me (and many others I'm sure) this is a historical domain.

(You're not going to park it, are you? Teasing!)

 

[Spex]

Congratulations to Patty Similien for brokering this one.

Wow...lol:lol:

Congrats on the buy

 

[dominator]

very symbolic name

 

[XF.com]

No. no parking on this one.

It has good page rank and the fact that it's been in
continual use since 1985 sits well with the search engines.

It'd be a sin to park it.

There is a plan for it

 

[tomsa]

Thanks Kate for correcting me, this is the oldest .com domain.
Nordu.net is older by a few months

Congrats XF for the purchase and best of luck with it!

 

[owntag]

Anything under $500,000 would be unacceptable.

ouch!

so this name finally went into a bidding war and reached mid 6 figure? I thought it went for a bit higher than $40k per the exowner's bulk email.
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[XF.com]

Nordu.net was used internally by the registry, for the registry.

Symbolics.com was the first offical registration.

More info on this at the bottom of the DNJournal Article.

Thanks for the kind words.

 

[tomsa]

Very interesting, thanks XF.com

 

[Gerry]

No. no parking on this one.

It has good page rank and the fact that it's been in
continual use since 1985 sits well with the search engines.

It'd be a sin to park it.

There is a plan for it

Congrats, Aron.

And thanks for having a plan for this one other than parking...should be a crime to even consider such a thing.

g

 

[Theo]

It'd be interesting to know when it was that Symbolics.com set up a web site, since the web wasn't invented until 1990.

 

[cadillac880]

Just in case anyone reading this thread might be interested:

The 100 oldest registered .com domains

15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
24-May-1985 THINK.COM
11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM
30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM
7-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM
9-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM
17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM
3-Mar-1986 HP.COM
5-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM
19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM
19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
8-May-1986 GMR.COM
8-May-1986 TEK.COM
10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM
10-Jul-1986 UB.COM
5-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM
5-Aug-1986 GE.COM
5-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM
5-Aug-1986 ISC.COM
5-Aug-1986 NSC.COM
5-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM
2-Sep-1986 BOEING.COM
18-Sep-1986 ITCORP.COM
29-Sep-1986 SIEMENS.COM
18-Oct-1986 PYRAMID.COM
27-Oct-1986 ALPHACDC.COM
27-Oct-1986 BDM.COM
27-Oct-1986 FLUKE.COM
27-Oct-1986 INMET.COM
27-Oct-1986 KESMAI.COM
27-Oct-1986 MENTOR.COM
27-Oct-1986 NEC.COM
27-Oct-1986 RAY.COM
27-Oct-1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM
27-Oct-1986 VORTEX.COM
5-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM
5-Nov-1986 GTE.COM
17-Nov-1986 ADOBE.COM
17-Nov-1986 AMD.COM
17-Nov-1986 DAS.COM
17-Nov-1986 DATA-IO.COM
17-Nov-1986 OCTOPUS.COM
17-Nov-1986 PORTAL.COM
17-Nov-1986 TELTONE.COM
11-Dec-1986 3COM.COM
11-Dec-1986 AMDAHL.COM
11-Dec-1986 CCUR.COM
11-Dec-1986 CI.COM
11-Dec-1986 CONVERGENT.COM
11-Dec-1986 DG.COM
11-Dec-1986 PEREGRINE.COM
11-Dec-1986 QUAD.COM
11-Dec-1986 SQ.COM
11-Dec-1986 TANDY.COM
11-Dec-1986 TTI.COM
11-Dec-1986 UNISYS.COM
19-Jan-1987 CGI.COM
19-Jan-1987 CTS.COM
19-Jan-1987 SPDCC.COM
19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COM
4-Mar-1987 NMA.COM
4-Mar-1987 PRIME.COM
4-Apr-1987 PHILIPS.COM
23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM
23-Apr-1987 KAI.COM
23-Apr-1987 TIC.COM
23-Apr-1987 VINE.COM
30-Apr-1987 NCR.COM
14-May-1987 CISCO.COM
14-May-1987 RDL.COM
20-May-1987 SLB.COM
27-May-1987 PARCPLACE.COM
27-May-1987 UTC.COM
26-Jun-1987 IDE.COM
9-Jul-1987 TRW.COM
13-Jul-1987 UNIPRESS.COM
27-Jul-1987 DUPONT.COM
27-Jul-1987 LOCKHEED.COM
28-Jul-1987 ROSETTA.COM
18-Aug-1987 TOAD.COM
31-Aug-1987 QUICK.COM
3-Sep-1987 ALLIED.COM
3-Sep-1987 DSC.COM
3-Sep-1987 SCO.COM
22-Sep-1987 GENE.COM
22-Sep-1987 KCCS.COM
22-Sep-1987 SPECTRA.COM
22-Sep-1987 WLK.COM
30-Sep-1987 MENTAT.COM
14-Oct-1987 WYSE.COM
2-Nov-1987 CFG.COM
9-Nov-1987 MARBLE.COM
16-Nov-1987 CAYMAN.COM
16-Nov-1987 ENTITY.COM
24-Nov-1987 KSR.COM
30-Nov-1987 NYNEXST.COM

 

[Gerry]

Just in case anyone reading this thread might be interested:

The 100 oldest registered .com domains

Fabulous list!

Thanks for the contribution.

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