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 |
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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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