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Internet's First Registered Domain Name Sold

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the not-a-growth-industry dept.

MojoKid writes "Believe it or not, it wasn't internet.com or dot.com that was acquired when the Internet was young. Instead, it was the somewhat off-the-wall name of symbolics.com. The Symbolics company was the first to use an internet domain name to guide Internet viewers to its line of Lisp machines, which were single-user computers optimized to run the Lisp programming language. XF.com Investments, which is a Missouri-based Internet investments firm, has managed to secure the domain name from its original owner for an undisclosed sum and XF's CEO was quick to proclaim his excitement over the acquisition. It's hard to say why this domain name was the first registered back on March 15, 1985, but for obvious reasons it holds a special place in history. There has been one original owner for nearly 25 years. Over that time, we've seen the Internet grow to the tune of 180,000,000+ registered domains, and thousands more are being added each and every day."

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  1. fp for sale by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    make an offer.

    1. Re:fp for sale by JustOK · · Score: 4, Funny

      But it's not the first fp, so it's not worth as much.

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  2. EPIC FAIL by popo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine being able to choose any domain name you wanted.... ... and choosing "Symbolics.com".

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    1. Re:EPIC FAIL by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

      in all fairness, .cx wasn't yet available.

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    2. Re:EPIC FAIL by dcollins · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Or are you one of the Slashdot socialists..."

      Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

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    3. Re:EPIC FAIL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I was under the impression that tubes.com and AlGore.com were the first domain names ever registered. Huh. Learn something new every day.

    4. Re:EPIC FAIL by paiute · · Score: 4, Funny

      www.whoosh.com

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    5. Re:EPIC FAIL by InlawBiker · · Score: 2, Funny
      I remember it well. Here's my hosts file, from before there was DNS.

      127.0.0.1 localhost
      127.0.0.1 pornbox
      216.17.96.87 symbolics.com
      192.1.122.17 bbn.com
      64.14.127.126 dec.com

      ...etc.

  3. Who is the joker who tags every story "story"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do we really need a tag to tell us it's a story?

    1. Re:Who is the joker who tags every story "story"? by Kalriath · · Score: 4, Funny

      For some reason though, it wont let us negate it with "!story"

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  4. sales site for symbian or sybian by Savior_on_a_Stick · · Score: 2, Funny

    take your pick

  5. Perspective by xenobyte · · Score: 3, Funny

    Over that time, we've seen the Internet grow to the tune of 180,000,000+ registered domains, and thousands more are being added each and every day.

    Actually there's only a few thousand 'serious' domains registered... the rest are just junk domains registered by spammers and malware peddlers... ;)

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