List of world’s first and oldest domain names – Internet Facts

Did you ever think that, which is the world first .COM , .EDU , .ORG domain names ever created. I guess you think about it. Well now you may be thinking that the first domain name is like com.com or ip.com or internet.com , if you think these name then your wrong. because the oldest .COM domain name ever created is symbolics.com created on 15th March, 1985 by computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc. The oldest .ORG  is mitre.org created on 10th July, 1985 by Mitre Corporation The oldest .EDU is berkeley.edu registered on 24 April, 1985 by University of California, Berkeley and the oldest .NET domain is nordu.net created on 1st January, 1985 by computer network company NORDUnet.

 

Below is the full list of 20 oldest .COM , 5 oldest .ORG , and 5 Oldest .NET domain names.

FIRST 20 OLDEST .COM DOMAIN NAMES

RANK REGISTERED DATE DOMAIN NAMES
1. March 15, 1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. April 24, 1985 BBN.COM
3. May 24, 1985 THINK.COM
4. July 11, 1985 MCC.COM
5. September 30, 1985 DEC.COM
6. November 7, 1985  NORTHROP.COM
7. January 9, 1986  XEROX.COM
8. January 17, 1986 sRI.COM
9. March 3, 1986 HP.COM
10. March 5, 1986 BELLCORE.CORE
11. March 19, 1986 IBM.COM
12.  March 19, 1986 SUN.COM
13. March 25, 1986   INTEL.COM
14.  March 25, 1986  TI.COM
15.  April 25, 1986  ATT.COM
16.  May 8, 1986  GMR.COM
17.  May 8, 1986 TEK.COM
18.  July 10, 1986  FMC.COM
19.  July 10, 1986  UB.COM
20.  August 5, 1986  BELL-ATL.COM

 FIRST 5 OLDEST .ORG DOMAIN NAMES 

RANK REGISTERED DATE DOMAIN NAMES
1. 10-Jul-1985 MITRE.ORG
2. 25-Mar-1986 SRC.ORG
3. 10-Jul-1986 SUPER.ORG
4. 07-Jan-1987 aero.org
5. 15-Jan-1987 MCNC.ORG

 FIRST 5 OLDEST .NET DOMAIN NAMES 

RANK REGISTERED DATE DOMAIN NAMES
1. 01-Jan-1985 NET
2. 01-Jan-1985 NORDU.NET
3. 05-Nov-1986 NSF.NET
4. 20-May-1987 UU.NET
5. 21-Jul-1987 SESQUI.NET

SEE ALSO: How Worlds Top Websites Look When They Launched [Read it to enjoy the facts]

While inspecting above list, i found these interesting facts about domain names:

1. Only six domain name was registered in 1985.

2. Microsoft.com is not in the list of top 100 oldest domain, but

3. Apple.com was at #67.

4. Out of 100 first domain names, only 6 domains currently rank under 500, according to alexa.

4.1. adobe.com at #56.

4.2. apple.com at #66

4.3. hp.com at #191.

4.4. att.com at #336.

4.5. ibm.com at #411.

4.6. sun.com at #484

5. It took 2.5 year until November 30, 1987 for the hundredth domain to be registered.

6. Apple launched its first Macintosh computer in 1984, so named for a brand of Apple (McIntosh), the company did not yet have the  www.apple.com domain. It would take another three years to get the domain.

7. Registering a domain was free of charge.

8. The legal domain name is need to be 63 characters long.

9. This is the long domain name: http://www.thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com

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