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All of them are .COM domains; is it because .NET/.EDU weren't around back then?

• hollerith 15y ago
  Universities were heavily involved in the creation of the internet/ARPANET, and IIRC, the University of Utah was the third host on the internet (in 1969 or 1970), so the list probably just omits the non-dot-com domain names.
• colonhyphenp 15y ago
  That list is just for .com domains. This Wikipedia entry lists old .com, .org, .edu and .net domains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_registered_Internet_domain_names http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_re... Also, I found it amusing how much overlap there is between the 50 oldest .edu domains and the US News list of top CS grad programs: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
• henrikschroder 15y ago
  It's filtered to only contain .com. The first .se domain was registered sometime in 1986, which would definitely place it pretty high on that list.
• greenyoda 15y ago
  .EDU was created at the same time as .COM, in January 1985. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu#History Before then, universities that were on the ARPANET (those with research funded by the Defense Department) were under the .ARPA domain.
• quinndupont 15y ago
  None, of course, will appear before the domain system was setup. These are for TLDs only. Arpanet came before, as well as other competing networking systems, and it was only the transition to a domain system that this history makes sense. See RFC 799 written in September 1981.