"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 intere

"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.