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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. Re:Who is the joker who tags every story "story"? by Starlon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You joker, Anonymous Coward. Everyone knows it's you tagging these!

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  2. Re:EPIC FAIL by interkin3tic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know, I would have chosen "symbolicsistotallyawesome.com"

  3. Re:Who is the joker who tags every story "story"? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    My suspicious is that it is an automatic tag to differentiate it from journal entries, 'ask slashdot', firehose submissions, and the like.

    Yes! Editors, would you pretty, pretty please make a FAQ so people will stop asking this? Thanks!

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  4. Inaccurate title by koavf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There are several older domains, e.g. purdue.edu: http://whois.domaintools.com/purdue.edu

  5. Re:EPIC FAIL by DangerFace · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know this is getting a little offtopic, but I thought it needed to be said that you are wrong - capitalism isn't about providing goods for services rendered, or about trying to fuck anyone. It's about capital, hence the name, and capital is money or stuff. Whoever has the most wins. That's it. In capitalism, do whatever you want as long as you don't piss off someone richer than you. Of course, we don't live in a properly capitalist society, and few people want to.

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