The first .com domain to be registered is symbolics.com. Back at those days, not everyone can afford to register a domain name as it definitely will not cost just US$10 per year and hence majority domains on the list are owned by Multinational Corporations (MNCs). Surprisingly, Microsoft.com isn’t part of the list as it was not registered until May 1991.
Our very own, sq.com (Singapore Airlines) is on the list but I have no idea whether they registered it or bought it from someone later on.
It takes about 2 years just to get 100 .com domains to be bought up, but now I guess it takes like few hours?
During 1985 I was just 1 year old! Imagine if you have purchases a few 3 letters domains, I think you will be a millionaire by now.
- symbolics.com: March 15, 1985
- bbn.com: April 24, 1985
- think.com: May 24, 1985
- mcc.com: July 11, 1985
- dec.com: Sept. 30, 1985
- northrop.com: Nov. 7, 1985
- xerox.com: Jan. 9, 1986
- sri.com: Jan. 17, 1986
- hp.com: March 3, 1986
- bellcore.com: March 5, 1986
- ibm.com: March 19, 1986
- sun.com: March 19, 1986
- intel.com: March 25, 1986
- ti.com: March 25, 1986
- att.com: April 25, 1986
- gmr.com: May 8, 1986
- tek.com: May 8, 1986
- fmc.com: July 10, 1986
- ub.com: July 10, 1986
- bell-atl.com: Aug. 5, 1986
- ge.com: Aug. 5, 1986
- grebyn.com: Aug. 5, 1986
- isc.com: Aug. 5, 1986
- nsc.com: Aug. 5, 1986
- stargate.com: Aug. 5, 1986
- boeing.com: Sept. 2, 1986
- itcorp.com: Sept. 18, 1986
- siemens.com: Sept. 29, 1986
- pyramid.com: Oct. 18, 1986
- alphacdc.com: Oct. 27, 1986
- bdm.com: Oct. 27, 1986
- fluke.com: Oct. 27, 1986
- inmet.com: Oct. 27, 1986
- kesmai.com: Oct. 27, 1986
- mentor.com: Oct. 27, 1986
- nec.com: Oct. 27, 1986
- ray.com: Oct. 27, 1986
- rosemount.com: Oct. 27, 1986
- vortex.com: Oct. 27, 1986
- alcoa.com: Nov. 5, 1986
- gte.com: Nov. 5, 1986
- adobe.com: Nov. 17, 1986
- amd.com: Nov. 17, 1986
- das.com: Nov. 17, 1986
- data-io.com: Nov. 17, 1986
- octopus.com: Nov. 17, 1986
- portal.com: Nov. 17, 1986
- teltone.com: Nov. 17, 1986
- 3com.com: Dec. 11, 1986
- amdahl.com: Dec. 11, 1986
- ccur.com: Dec. 11, 1986
- ci.com: Dec. 11, 1986
- convergent.com: Dec. 11, 1986
- dg.com: Dec. 11, 1986
- peregrine.com: Dec. 11, 1986
- quad.com: Dec. 11, 1986
- sq.com: Dec. 11, 1986
- tandy.com: Dec. 11, 1986
- tti.com: Dec. 11, 1986
- unisys.com: Dec. 11, 1986
- cgi.com: Jan. 19, 1987
- cts.com: Jan. 19, 1987
- spdcc.com: Jan. 19, 1987
- apple.com: Feb. 19, 1987
- nma.com: March 4, 1987
- prime.com: March 4, 1987
- philips.com: April 4, 1987
- datacube.com: April 23, 1987
- kai.com: April 23, 1987
- tic.com: April 23, 1987
- vine.com: April 23, 1987
- ncr.com: April 30, 1987
- cisco.com: May 14, 1987
- rdl.com: May 14, 1987
- slb.com: May 20, 1987
- parcplace.com: May 27, 1987
- utc.com: May 27, 1987
- ide.com: June 26, 1987
- trw.com: July 9, 1987
- unipress.com: July 13, 1987
- dupont.com: July 27, 1987
- lockheed.com: July 27, 1987
- rosetta.com: July 28, 1987
- toad.com: Aug. 18, 1987
- quick.com: Aug. 31, 1987
- allied.com: Sept. 3, 1987
- dsc.com: Sept. 3, 1987
- sco.com: Sept. 3, 1987
- gene.com: Sept. 22, 1987
- kccs.com: Sept. 22, 1987
- spectra.com: Sept. 22, 1987
- wlk.com: Sept. 22, 1987
- mentat.com: Sept. 30, 1987
- wyse.com: Oct. 14, 1987
- cfg.com: Nov. 2, 1987
- marble.com: Nov. 9, 1987
- cayman.com: Nov. 16, 1987
- entity.com: Nov. 16, 1987
- ksr.com: Nov. 24, 1987
- nynexst.com: Nov. 30, 1987
Source: http://www.iwhois.com/oldest/ via Neowin: First 100 .com domains ever registered
Makes you wish you could go back in time and buy “a few” 3 letter domain names, eh? 🙂
Yea =(
I saw that you have a facebook page dedicated to your plugins. How do you do to import automatically posts from your wordpress blog to your page (not your profile)?
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What a wonderful list and a cool idea that you would even compile this list. Old school and interesting. I also want to take a moment to say that I really admire your design work and the implementation of programming on your blog . By far, one of the best looking blogs as far as layout and relevant content that I have seen. While on the topic of programming, thank you so much for wp-sticky. I have several blogs that are updated constantly, but I like to keep one sticky at the top of the homepage as an introduction slash seo most relevant content post. The money isn’t rolling in just yet, but when it does, I’ll send a donation your way. You da man!
Thanks man =)
> It takes about 2 years just to get 100 .com domains to be bought up, but now I guess it takes like few hours?
I’d merely guess few seconds… Considering that I as an individual person have several hundred…
@Dominik: Wow, can you remember all of your domain names?
Great list, dude!I think these companies or individuals can be said to possess vision and embrace the fact that the Internet will be prolific in our lives. I wonder what game i was playing on my Apple IIe ‘clone’ then… I think Castle Wolfenstein on monochrome. 🙂
I am only 1 year old in 1985, still learning how to walk lol