the first 100 domain names registered

[system0]

saw this at sitepoint - its quite interesting - i couldnt believe stargate was registered before microsoft!!!

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

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[nicorlino]

interesting, thanks for the information!

 

[cyphix]

very interesting... thanks!

 

[Shiftlock]

If only I had the insight to register every two-letter .com in March of 1985...

 

[AHDOnline]

Very interesting when they registered thier domains..

As far as having the insight to register in march of 1985.. How many people here are old enough, or even had a computer then? I was and did, but geez I was just getting into bbs's then

 

[system0]

i was 6
still enjoying my atari with the rubber joysticks about then

 

[QualityDomains]

I wonder how many of those companies are still around. I've not heard of quite a few of them.

 

[Shiftlock]

Originally posted by AHDOnline
As far as having the insight to register in march of 1985.. How many people here are old enough, or even had a computer then? I was and did, but geez I was just getting into bbs's then

In 1985 I had been typing away for a few years on the Commodore 64 from which the key in my avatar came. I was enjoying my 300 baud modem, but it would still have been a few years before my first internet experience in 1988. No comment on age, kids.

 

[devolution]

Back then, the Internet as we know it didn't exist.
Total traffic in a year on the network was less than the traffic in a hour these days

The companies registered these domains only to help them organise their collections of computers, and so that they could perhaps be connected to other organisations/locations.


The first websites weren't around until the very early 1990s

 

[peter]

Originally posted by Shiftlock


In 1985 I had been typing away for a few years on the Commodore 64 from which the key in my avatar came. I was enjoying my 300 baud modem, but it would still have been a few years before my first internet experience in 1988. No comment on age, kids.

wow dude. you must be like... uhhr.... 1000 years or something?

 

[Shiftlock]

Originally posted by icehole


wow dude. you must be like... uhhr.... 1000 years or something?

Sure feels like it sometimes. :dead:

 

[danield]

That ruled fonzerelli_79!!! thanks, very interesting.

I wonder how much registration cost back then?

 

[cyphix]

Originally posted by fonzerelli_79
i was 6
still enjoying my atari with the rubber joysticks about then

Heh.... same age as me!

As a matter of interest:

business.com - 1999
finance.com - 1997
sex.com - 1995
porn.com - 1995
stockmarket.com - 1998
stocks.com - 1998
ebay.com - 1995
yahoo.com - 1995
google.com - 1997

 

[domainduck]

Originally posted by cyphix


Heh.... same age as me!

As a matter of interest:

business.com - 1999
finance.com - 1997
sex.com - 1995
porn.com - 1995
stockmarket.com - 1998
stocks.com - 1998
ebay.com - 1995
yahoo.com - 1995
google.com - 1997

Looks like 1995 was a landmark year for Internet dreamers.


quack

 

[dtobias]

That is an incomplete list... it doesn't show .edu domains, which were actually the majority of registrations back then.

Incidentally, domain registrations were entirely free of charge until 1995. However, the registry actually made some attempt to enforce the distinction between the TLDs then, rejecting registrations of .com domains if you're noncommercial, .org if you're commercial, and .net if you're not a network infrastructure provider.

I owned my first computer (an Apple II) in 1980.

 

[RMF]

If only I knew then what I know now. Ughh!!!!

RMF

 

[DNQuest.com]

In 1985, I was into other interests. I had just graduated high School. Up to that point, I had worked on an Apple 2 and Apple 2g, IBM and my dad had bought us an IBM jr. in 1982 or so. I did all my programming in basic or basica. I also worked the mainframes using Cobalt, Fortran and RPG II. My first internet experience was compuserve back in '90 or so. Does any of thing ring a bell with anyone

BTW_ I thought the interenet was invented by Al Gore in '92? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

 

[Bob]

I started using the internet in 1988. I remember when the "web" was invented in 1992 (people nowadays use "web" interchangably with "internet"). In 1993 (or 1994 or 1995) - somewhere in there) I looked into getting some .com addresses, but thought it was ridiculous to pay $70 for two years of registration (I was just out of college and unemplyed and figured I had better things to do with $70 then buy domain names). lol. Oh well. GuessI whiffed on that one eh?

-Bob

P.S. I miss the BBS days and playing Tradewars. Smile if you played Tradewars!

Originally posted by AHDOnline
Very interesting when they registered thier domains..

As far as having the insight to register in march of 1985.. How many people here are old enough, or even had a computer then? I was and did, but geez I was just getting into bbs's then

 

[Bob]

My first PC (not counting the old Pong or Atari) was a Vic-20. I bought it at a garage sale in 1982 for $25. It had 4k of RAM, hooked into the TV and had a cassette tape as the recording device (Anybody ever save their programs to tape and then play them in a regular audio cassete tape player? It sounded funky! ) I taught myself Basic on the VIC-20 and wrote a pretty cool BlackJack game, complete with graphics and sound (youbasic programmers, remember "peek" and "poke". When is the last time you used them?? :laugh: )

When I went off to college in 1988, I bought a Tandy 1000 with dual **LOW** density floppy drives (no hard drive / card). It was a dual speed machine that functioned at a whopping 4.77 or 8 MHz. 1988 is when I got my first taste of the internet, BITNET (anybody remember BITNET? I was more popular than the internet for several years), and mainframes (VM/VMS and VAX/VMS). I had to do FORTRAN coding on the VM mainframe, but thankfully, did not have to use punch cards.

To this day, I still enjoy working with mainframes!

Ah, this thread is bringing back the memories. . . . *sigh*

-Bob

Originally posted by DNQuest.com
In 1985, I was into other interests. I had just graduated high School. Up to that point, I had worked on an Apple 2 and Apple 2g, IBM and my dad had bought us an IBM jr. in 1982 or so. I did all my programming in basic or basica. I also worked the mainframes using Cobalt, Fortran and RPG II. My first internet experience was compuserve back in '90 or so. Does any of thing ring a bell with anyone

BTW_ I thought the interenet was invented by Al Gore in '92? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

 

[Shiftlock]

BBS's... Tradewars...

Peek and Poke, Commodore Basic, "Ready." Typing in ridiculously long programs out of magazines and saving them to data cassettes... and I do remember playing them in an audio player... Beeeep, bluuuuuut, boooooop, beeeep, pschhhhhhh.... Bzzzzzz.... beeeep. I was so happy when I finally got my 1571 floppy disk drive.

Wardialing. Staying up all night in high school hacking VAX/VMS, Unix, and Primes. Rolm and AT&T System 75 PBX controllers. Telenet and Tymnet. Redboxes, codelines, loops, AT&T teleconferencing. Anybody here remember these things?