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Interesting question. I'm relatively certain that cayman.com, for example, was Cayman Systems, so that has obviously turned over. But many of these companies
by ethomson 13y ago
Interesting question. I'm relatively certain that cayman.com, for example, was Cayman Systems, so that has obviously turned over. But many of these companies (and thus, domains) have simply been acquired. SCO.com was SCO who was once a legitimate company. kai.com was Kuck and Associates, acquired by Intel's compiler group several years ago.
The big surprise to me is that they're not all just tech companies. In a sea of domain names that built the internet sits... Alcoa!?
- jonnathanson 13y ago"The big surprise to me is that they're not all just tech companies. In a sea of domain names that built the internet sits... Alcoa!?" Yeah, Alcoa is an interesting case. On the surface, one wonders why an aluminum manufacturer would be on the early domains list. But Alcoa has been (and still is?) in the fabrication business for a wide range of industrial uses: aerospace, defense, etc. Since the early internet was largely subsidized by the military-industrial complex, it makes some sense that a major supplier would be early on the bandwagon. That's just a guess, though. I have no particular knowledge of why Alcoa was there early.
- rhplus 13y agoIf your business feeds a global commodities market, then you're probably going to want some advanced telecoms to keep up with pricing, supply chains, and all those mines and processing plants in far flung corners of the globe.