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Re: Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs

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Post by acuozzo »

icedchai wrote: post #70
ghaff wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For that matter, /8 blocks were given out, if not quite like candy, certainly with considerable abandon. A fair number of the early universities and companies who registered ended up with complete /8 blocks all to themselves. [EDIT: Duh. Of course, it was actually Class A blocks at the time.]

Class C's were literally given out like candy. I have my own /24, and know several others who do, as well.

> Class C's were literally given out like candy.

Are you implying that they were printed out, individually packaged, and offered in a bowl?

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Post by jlv2 »

awb wrote: post #19

Were original registrations done by mail? I see 5 domains registered on Aug. 5th, 1986, then no more domains for another month. And 12 on Dec. 11 1986, then again another month with no registrations.

You sent them in by email.

The SRI NIC had a template file you'd fill out and email it in. For example, see RFC-1032: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1032

I registered my first .edu in 1986 (maybe 1987) and my first .com in 1988.

It was done similarly for getting IP blocks assigned. I emailed in a form around 1986 and got a class B assigned for my university (still in use).

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Post by kps »

invalidusernam3 wrote: post #8

Top 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…

The fourth IETF proceedings (back when the Internet Engineering Task Force was an internet engineering task force) contains a list of the 143 second-level domains registered as of July 10, 1986.

Of the 40 listed .com domains, the following are not in the list in the OP article: adelie.com buck.com cca.com mecc.com nbi.com next.com olivetti.com proteon.com pyr.com rca.com tmc.com vse.com

One of the five listed .org domains is not in the article: csc.org

The one listed .net domain is cs.net, also not in the article.

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#104

Post by ars »

chrisacky wrote: post #27

What 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 know I didn't register any domains because there was social pressure not to register them if you didn't have a use for them.

Big mistake that was..........

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#105

Post by kps »

cozzyd wrote: post #6
reaperducer wrote: post #2

Should 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...

I don't believe Wikipedia. The fourth IETF proceedings lists 90 .edu domains registered as of July 10, 1986.

Of those, 18 are still currently registered but are not in Wikipedia's list: buffalo.edu colgate.edu du.edu houston.edu lehigh.edu merit.edu mosis.edu riacs.edu sdsu.edu sunysb.edu tmc.edu ucar.edu uchicago.edu uiowa.edu umb.edu uoregon.edu villanova.edu vt.edu

A further 7 are no longer registered: mich-state.edu ntsu.edu ogc.edu pittsburgh.edu ukans.edu wanginst.edu waterloo.edu

Re: Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs

#106

Post by cozzyd »

kps wrote: post #105
cozzyd wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I don't believe Wikipedia. The fourth IETF proceedings lists 90 .edu domains registered as of July 10, 1986. Of those, 18 are still currently registered but are not in Wikipedia's list: buffalo.edu colgate.edu du.edu houston.edu lehigh.edu merit.edu mosis.edu riacs.edu sdsu.edu sunysb.edu tmc.edu ucar.edu uchicago.edu uiowa.edu umb.edu uoregon.edu villanova.edu vt.edu A further 7 are no longer registered: mich-state.…

Yeah, it must be based on querying whois, but for example, whois shows that uchicago.edu was registered in 1991 and northwestern.edu was registered in 1999 (!!). I suppose there may have been some lapse in the registration or something...

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#108

Post by technofiend »

techwizrd wrote: post #92

My employer, MITRE, is known for being the first to register a .org TLD. It's a pretty neat bit of computing history.

Anecdotally they also chased after a consultancy using mitre.com and forced them to give up their domain. The founders had gone to MIT and Rice University and were in a completely different sector but MITRE didn't care.

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Post by Sharlin »

king_nothing wrote: post #5

The 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.…

As a Nordic person whose ISP for several years was NORDUnet (via the university I studied at) I had no idea that they have the oldest .net domain in existence. Pretty cool.
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