This must be missing entries. For example, look up ca.com:
created: 1985-01-01
Making it 2 months older than the earliest dot com on the list.
Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs
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#72I am surprised by the number of funny/visionary domains. Broken.net, super.org or portal.com as part of these lists is funny.
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#73I worked for bbn.com back in the mid 2000's before they went out of business. BBN employed some of the smartest people I've ever worked with, but the company couldn't figure out how to keep the business relationships going. I remember having a conversation with my colleague saying "How does a company that invents the internet go out of business?" I was eventually laid off along with about 30% of the company. I saw pe…
I started at BBN a few years before that, a month before the sale to GTE. It was a shame, they definitely had some tremendously bright people.
I also have on a couple of occasions worked at Eli Lilly, who had a class A because they were early to the Internet; I found it vaguely humorous that between BBN and Lilly I'd worked on more class A networks than most people would ever have the opportunity to.
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#74In the sea of dead links, early tech companies, think tanks, and so on, I was happy to see my local (Boston) PBS and NPR affiliate, WGBH. I don't usually think of public broadcasting as an early tech adopter, so even in Boston it was a pleasant surprise to see they registered one of the first 100 .org domains.
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#75What was registration fees back then? Why wouldn't people just squat on a bunch of two/three letter domains? Was it prohibitively difficult to register..
I have two forward-thinking friends who grabbed their initials, so they have 3-letter .com domain names.
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#76I worked for bbn.com back in the mid 2000's before they went out of business. BBN employed some of the smartest people I've ever worked with, but the company couldn't figure out how to keep the business relationships going. I remember having a conversation with my colleague saying "How does a company that invents the internet go out of business?" I was eventually laid off along with about 30% of the company. I saw pe…
I started at BBN a few years before that, a month before the sale to GTE. It was a shame, they definitely had some tremendously bright people. I also have on a couple of occasions worked at Eli Lilly, who had a class A because they were early to the Internet; I found it vaguely humorous that between BBN and Lilly I'd worked on more class A networks than most people would ever have the opportunity to.
192.* and 127.* work just fine ;)
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#77Given how many people / media say we are entering an App world, are domain name still worth a lot of money?
I waited for .Web I think for now close or over a decade? And it doesn't seems to be coming despite all the silly Tld we have now.
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#78Top 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.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speaking of DEC.com, it was purchased for $57,500 few years ago by Paul Kocher. I'd say it was a bargain, considering the rich heritage of DEC and it's alexa ranking.
It makes me wonder why would Compaq / HP, or whoever was owner of DEC at the time, have let this valuable asset go for so little...
Whoever owns the trademark can file a trademark dispute and get the domain back for "cheap".
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#80This must be missing entries. For example, look up ca.com: created: 1985-01-01 Making it 2 months older than the earliest dot com on the list.
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