The Internet's 100 Oldest Dot-Com Domain Official List

[katherine]

Perhaps you can remove the E-mail addresses so they don't receive more spam.

 

[Domainate.com]

I realize obviously that back in the early days of the net, hyphens were probably even the more accepted way of splitting words/terms, but it's still a bit amusing to see the 20th oldest name on the internet be a hyphen domain.

 

[katherine]

You would be amazed at the crap that was registered back in the early days. Back then the quality of domain names was not important. Companies would often use their acronym so a good deal of LL & LLL were taken early.
Also, domain names were restricted to 'serious' business so it was not conceivable to register something like... sex.com for example Your application would have been thrown away

 

[Giode]

I have a list of all the domains registered back in 1994, and surprisingly, almost every Single Character .com (one letter/number) was registered. Even more suprisingly is how few of those companies were able to hold on to them.

 

[WhiteLight]

This was interesting thread thank you. One person asked how much was registration back then. That was my initial thought also. Does anyone know? Also, were 1 character domains allowed to be registered back then as another mentioned that they were all reg'ed and dropped? I thought 1 characters were new stuff in the dot coms!

 

[Theo]

Believe it or not, registrations were free. One simply had to apply for a domain, explain the reasons why they had to have it and they'd get it! Later on, in 1995, the fee became $100 for two year registrations.

 

[dominator]

this list is (was) everywhere
even here:
http://www.dnforum.com/f247/internets-100-oldest-dot-com-domains-infoworld-thread-341282.html

nothing is surprising about it
you just have to know circumstances and think logically

 

[Developper]

Well, it was John Postel himself who registered all single character domains back then. And they all had been taken away by ICANN over the time, only 3 survived (z.com, x.com and q.com). But ICANN will redistribute them in a short while, albeit those will be VERY expensive.

 

[Stian]

But ICANN will redistribute them in a short while,.

Don't hold your breath. :cheesy:

 

[Theo]

Well, it was John Postel himself who registered all single character domains back then. And they all had been taken away by ICANN over the time, only 3 survived (z.com, x.com and q.com). But ICANN will redistribute them in a short while, albeit those will be VERY expensive.

ICANNT released them last year.

 

[wussadotcom]

I have a list of all the domains registered back in 1994, and surprisingly, almost every Single Character .com (one letter/number) was registered. Even more suprisingly is how few of those companies were able to hold on to them.

Can you give the list of domains in 1994? How many are there.

 

[Giode]

Can you give the list of domains in 1994? How many are there.

Sure! If anyone wants the list, just pm me at your personal email and I'll attach and send.

btw: it's a list of all the domains registered in 1993, not 1994.