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Ah, I remember when you could get a full list of com domains from the Internic. Hell, I remember when SRI-NIC.ARPA was a root name server. I forget exactly wh
by Ologn 8y ago
Ah, I remember when you could get a full list of com domains from the Internic. Hell, I remember when SRI-NIC.ARPA was a root name server. I forget exactly when they stopped the ability to ftp that.
Interesting looking at the COM zone for August 1995 and June 1996. In August 1995, bulletproof.com, foolproof.com, and fool-proof.com were all registered - but not proof.com. Proof.com was registered February 3rd, 1996 (I applied for it the same day but didn't get it, they must have beat me by an hour or two). By June 1996, not only were all the above registered in the proof.com namespace, but also babyproof.com, birdproof.com, crashproof.com, cyberproof.com, digitalproof.com etc.
Of course if I knew back in February 1996 how valuable good .com names would be in a few years, I would have registered a bunch more.
- samtc 8y agoYou can still access com.zone [1], you have to fill a form and have a phone call with verisign and you get access to a good old FTP with a daily dump. Some other TLDs gives access through Centralized Zone Data Service [2]. Some deny access, like ca.zone. But I get what you mean, it was really publicly available. [1] https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-registry-products/zone-file/index.xhtml https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-regi... [2] https://czds.icann.org/en https://czds.icann.org/en