Oldest Domain Names
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Oldest Domain Names
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#2"Domain names have been actually been available for 28 years – yes, before you even knew what a computer looked like."
Guess I'm not part of domainholdings's target audience. I've been programming computers for 33 years. So no, not before I even knew what a computer looked like.
But man, how much money would I have, had I snapped up as many www..com domains as I could, and sold them to the companies as they became internet-aware!
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#3"Domain names have been actually been available for 28 years – yes, before you even knew what a computer looked like." Guess I'm not part of domainholdings's target audience. I've been programming computers for 33 years. So no, not before I even knew what a computer looked like. But man, how much money would I have, had I snapped up as many www. .com domains as I could, and sold them to the companies as they became i…
I was thinking about this too, and I'm guessing that dumb 20 year old me would have sold those domains in the late 90's for thousands thinking I was making a huge profit instead of waiting a few more years until those Coca Cola people got desperate.
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#4No Microsoft.com? Late to the party?
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#5No Microsoft.com? Late to the party?
Indeed, interesting to known why. The domain came online at May 2, 1991.
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#6What was registering a domain name like in 1986-87?
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#7Where domain names case sensitive then?
Names such as "Bell-ATL.com" are listed which use capitals as they please. Is this just so we can recognize the company name more easily or are they actually registered like that?
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#8Wait, every single name here is a .com. I thought the Internet was non-commercial at first -- where are the .edu, .org, etc.? Did those not come until later, or is this list restricted?
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#9Where domain names case sensitive then? Names such as "Bell-ATL.com" are listed which use capitals as they please. Is this just so we can recognize the company name more easily or are they actually registered like that?
No, domain names have always been case-insensitive, just like e-mail addresses.
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#10How many of these have been in continuous ownership since first being registered? I'm sure quite a few of them have, but I'd be curious. (For example, I'd have a hard time believing that "Marble.com" is the same entity today that it was 30 years ago, and WhoIs info goes back only so far).