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The First 100 Dot Coms Ever Registered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bet-mine-isn't-in-there dept.

roman1 submitted an interesting list containing the first 100 .com domains registered. Many of the names you haven't heard of, many you have. What was interesting to me is that it took 2 years just to get 100 domains on-line.

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  1. Symbolics ... by foobsr · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... here is some pictures of a symbolics (those with the first domasin) machine for those who cannot imagine ...

    http://home.hakuhale.net/rbc/symbolics/20041113/20041113.html

    CC.

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    1. Re:Symbolics ... by rs79 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Symbolics wasn't actually first, DEC was. Brian Reid registered it in January (and still has the datestamped mail from the Internic) but they screwed up the dates in whois.

      Mitre.org was the fitst domain registered.

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  2. wiki by tofupup · · Score: 5, Informative

    here is a nice linked list of the *.com list
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com

  3. .org was always a catch-all by Cadre · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm sure when the net was young that .orgs had to be non profit

    .org was not created for non-profit organizations, it was originally created as a catch-all for organizations that didn't meet the requirements for the other gTLDs. PIR's History Page, RFC 920, RFC 1591

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  4. Re:Internet connections by raju1kabir · · Score: 4, Informative

    It was free for a long time. Then they started charging a one-time administration fee (the amount of which I've long since forgotten). And finally we came to the annual-fee arrangement in place now.

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