AMPR was one of the first organizations to register with the DNS in the early 80's. It was an original player on the ARPANET before it was "the Internet." In fa

AMPR was one of the first organizations to register with the DNS in the early 80's. It was an original player on the ARPANET before it was "the Internet." In fact, they tried to register in 1987 using their own TLD (.AMPR) because, according to them, they were a "mobile" network (didn't fall under the ccTLDs) and did not fit into any of the existing gTLD categories. After some deliberation the NIC ultimately registered them under .ORG in 1988.