Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs
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#2Should also include an .edu list.
IIRC, rice.edu was the 8th domain registered on the entire internet.
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#3Lots of business and org names are acronyms, but it really stands out to me how most of the early ones are short. I guess in the age of excessively-long UUCP addresses, it was immediately obvious that short domain names would be preferable to longer ones.
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#4Crazy to think the oldest domain is 12 days older than me (registered 1985-03-15)
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#5The oldest domain is still going strong http://nordu.net
NORDUnet is a collaboration between the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) of the five Nordic countries; Denmark (DeIC), Iceland (RHnet), Norway (UNINETT), Sweden (SUNET), and Finland (Funet). The Nordic region (five countries and three autonomous areas) has a population of 25 million, 9 official languages, and a strong tradition of collaboration. Together, the countries form the world’s 11th largest economy.
NORDUnet was founded in 1985 as a result of the NORDUNET programme and is jointly owned by the five Nordic countries. Each of the Nordic NRENs has a seat on the board and share the base costs according to the country GDP.
NORDUnet operates a world-class network and e-infrastructure service for the Nordic R&E community. The five NRENs develop and operate the national research network infrastructures, connecting more than 400 research & education institutions with more than 1.2 million users.
Re: Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs
#6Should also include an .edu list. IIRC, rice.edu was the 8th domain registered on the entire internet.
Wikipedia seems to have it [0]. Sad to say, looks like Cal beat Stanford :(
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_r...
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#7Crazy to think the oldest domain is 12 days older than me (registered 1985-03-15)
Are you sure? I thought is was nordu.net from 1985-01-01
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#8Top 20:
symbolics.com - Still exists
bbn.com - Redirects to raytheon.com
think.com - Dead
mcc.com - Redirects to thecryptogenius.com (sometimes, not sure what's going on with it)
dec.com - Redirects to paulkocher.com
northrop.com - Dead
xerox.com - Alive, Xerox website
sri.com - Alive
hp.com - Alive, HP website
bellcore.com - Dead
ibm.com - Alive, IBM website
sun.com - Alive, sun website (oracle.com)
intel.com - Alive, intel website
ti.com - Alive, Texas Instruments
att.com - Alive, ATT
gmr.com - Dead
tek.com - Alive, Tektronix website
fmc.com - Alive, FMC website
ub.com - Alive, United Bitcoin website
bell-atl.com - Dead
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#9Lots of business and org names are acronyms, but it really stands out to me how most of the early ones are short. I guess in the age of excessively-long UUCP addresses, it was immediately obvious that short domain names would be preferable to longer ones.
OMG. I remember those foo!blah!whatever!hey!someonesslowandunreliableboxwithoutanups!mineallmine Thank the flying spaghetti monster for SMTP.
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#10Top 20: symbolics.com - Still exists bbn.com - Redirects to raytheon.com think.com - Dead mcc.com - Redirects to thecryptogenius.com (sometimes, not sure what's going on with it) dec.com - Redirects to paulkocher.com northrop.com - Dead xerox.com - Alive, Xerox website sri.com - Alive hp.com - Alive, HP website bellcore.com - Dead ibm.com - Alive, IBM website sun.com - Alive, sun website (oracle.com) intel.com - Aliv…
are single letter domains not allowed? surprised two letter domains are not more common.