25 Years of the .com gTLD

An anonymous reader writes "The domain COM was installed as one of the first set of top-level domains when the Domain Name System was first implemented for use on the Internet in January 1985. The internet celebrates a landmark event on the 15th of March — the 25th anniversary of the day the first .com name was registered. Of the 250 million websites, there are over 80 million active .com sites. In March 1985, Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts entered the history books with an internet address ending in .com (however, on 27 August 2009, it was sold to XF.com Investments). That same year another five companies jumped on a very slow bandwagon. Here is a list of the 100 oldest still-existing registered .com domains."

Comments

threadjack

[convolvatron]

for several years there was an open genera than ran on alphas, and now apparently
a mysterious virtual version that is hosted by linux. does anyone know what happened
to the genera ip?

Teh man

[Notegg Nornoggin]

teh man got WOOWOOWOO.NIGGER.COM , iant it so bruthars?

Symbolics Open Genera?

[weston]

I read the other day on Wikipedia that "older versions of the [Genera] are available as free software." Anyone know if there's a way to get a hold of such a distribution and run it under some kind of emulator?

Re:No ..

[Anonymous Coward]

Ugh, go back to grade school, kid, and the same to whoever modded you interesting. Compuserve and AOL were doing a pretty good job of making their closed networks the defining online experience years before the Internet started eating their lunch. M$ wasn't even in the picture.

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