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I did too. They had one of the cleverest logos I've seen. With this redirect dies one of the oldest sites on the web. Sun.com had the 11th oldest registered dom

by amvp 17y ago

I did too. They had one of the cleverest logos I've seen. With this redirect dies one of the oldest sites on the web. Sun.com had the 11th oldest registered domain name (tied with IBM.com) https://www.iwhois.com/oldest/ https://www.iwhois.com/oldest/

justin_vanw 17y ago
I tried to do some rudementary research, but without more work it is hard to know if the current owner is the original owner, or just a corp with the same name. I caught ISC as one of these abandoned domains, there may be more. Oldest Domains: 1. Symbolics.com => Domain Squatter 2. BBN.com => Owned by Raytheon 3. Think.com => Owned by? Oracle 4. MCC.com => Domain Squatter 5. DEC.com => HP.com 6. Northrop.com => Northropgrumman.com 7. Xerox.com 8. SRI.com 9. HP.com 10. Bellcore.com => Telcordia.com 11. IBM.com 11. Sun.com => oracle.com 13. Intel.com 13. TI.com 15. ATT.com 16. GMR.com => Broken? 16. TEK.com 18. FMC.com 18. UB.com => ultimatebet.com 20. Bell-ATL.com => verizon.com 20. GE.com 20. Grebyn.com => broken? 20. ISC.com => Aquired by Kodak who abandoned domain 20. NSC.com 20. Stargate.com => latisys.com
luckydude 17y ago
I liked their logo as well. I used to work there and I was the lead on a long dead product called sparc cluster I. The logo we created for that was a play on the Sun logo and the product itself. Hand written postscript (jesus, I'm old) here: http://bitmover.com/lm/sun-clust.sh http://bitmover.com/lm/sun-clust.sh and the logo here: http://bitmover.com/lm/sun-clust.gif http://bitmover.com/lm/sun-clust.gif A little cheesy but I always liked that logo.
cmars232 17y ago
Remember the Solaris screensaver, how they used to blink around in a Conway game of life simulation? I'll miss those little guys...
spolsky 17y ago
I think these are the oldest .com names, but I'm pretty sure there were plenty of older .edu names.

by amvp 17y ago

justin_vanw 17y ago

I tried to do some rudementary research, but without more work it is hard to know if the current owner is the original owner, or just a corp with the same name. I caught ISC as one of these abandoned domains, there may be more. Oldest Domains: 1. Symbolics.com => Domain Squatter 2. BBN.com => Owned by Raytheon 3. Think.com => Owned by? Oracle 4. MCC.com => Domain Squatter 5. DEC.com => HP.com 6. Northrop.com => Northropgrumman.com 7. Xerox.com 8. SRI.com 9. HP.com 10. Bellcore.com => Telcordia.com 11. IBM.com 11. Sun.com => oracle.com 13. Intel.com 13. TI.com 15. ATT.com 16. GMR.com => Broken? 16. TEK.com 18. FMC.com 18. UB.com => ultimatebet.com 20. Bell-ATL.com => verizon.com 20. GE.com 20. Grebyn.com => broken? 20. ISC.com => Aquired by Kodak who abandoned domain 20. NSC.com 20. Stargate.com => latisys.com

luckydude 17y ago

I liked their logo as well. I used to work there and I was the lead on a long dead product called sparc cluster I. The logo we created for that was a play on the Sun logo and the product itself. Hand written postscript (jesus, I'm old) here: http://bitmover.com/lm/sun-clust.sh http://bitmover.com/lm/sun-clust.sh and the logo here: http://bitmover.com/lm/sun-clust.gif http://bitmover.com/lm/sun-clust.gif A little cheesy but I always liked that logo.

cmars232 17y ago

Remember the Solaris screensaver, how they used to blink around in a Conway game of life simulation? I'll miss those little guys...

spolsky 17y ago

I think these are the oldest .com names, but I'm pretty sure there were plenty of older .edu names.