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100 Oldest .COM domain names
- jwb119 17y agothe time span is interesting. a full ~2.5yrs for 100 domains to be registered.
- buugs 17y agoI'm assuming that these weren't the first 100 but the oldest 100 domains that have been registered even until now.
- cmelbye 17y ago"mcc.com" has been snapped up by a domains squatter, so I assume that the list is of the first 100 registered.
- panic 17y agoThat's 100 .com domains. During that time, .edu, .org, .mil, and other non-commercial addresses were probably more popular.
- vaksel 17y agoan interesting little factoid: domains were free to register until 1995
- dlsspy 17y ago...approximately October 5th 1995. spy.net was requested before it was announced that they were charging, but they grandfathered us in anyway. :) Of course, like an old fogey, I'll state that it was all downhill from there. The ``one organization, one domain'' rules, etc... all died when people realized they could make more money by making it chaos. Some good probably came out of that, though I'd say domain squatters did enough harm to make that severely unbalanced.
- datums 17y agoMy oldest is 1999. I read somewhere that google also uses that in there complex page rank and results page.
- tptacek 17y agoI'm now intensely curious about what the oldest "popular" hostnames were before there was the DNS. Also, what were FMC, Alcoa, and DuPoint doing with domain names?
- euroclydon 17y agoI'm assuming their researchers wanted email, to chat with their university buddies.
- fraXis 17y agoNo 'microsoft.com', but Apple registered their domain 'apple.com' in 1987.
- bcl 17y agoMy first domain was guetech.org, running over a UUCP link to eskimo.com, I remember having to fill out and email a text template to request it. I think this was sometime around 1995. I still have the domain :) I think the absence of microsoft.com is telling. They really didn't see where the internet was heading.
- eam 17y agoI wish I was old enough and had a good understanding of domains during the 90's so that I could have bought myself a good domain.