Why are there so many of them that share dates of registration?
Oldest Domain Names
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#12Wait, 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?
Those can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_r...
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#13Where 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.
E-mail addresses are case sensitive.
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#14"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…
You probably would have made zero money as the companies would have filed a trademark / wipo dispute and taken the domains.
I would have registered a bunch of generic domains, like business.com or sex.com (lookup the history of that domain for an interesting read.)
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#15Where 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?
And #45, "Data IO.com", seems to have a space in the middle.
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#16What was registering a domain name like in 1986-87?
I'm going to guess expensive and full of paperwork.
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#17What was registering a domain name like in 1986-87?
They were free, and only took a letter (not email...) to the internic. I remember when we registered Autodesk.com, not much impact at the time because we didn't have a connection to the 'net yet. My email was still {gatech,uunet,MIT}!acad!eric.
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#18It's curious to note that the very first domain registration on any gTLD came from NORDUnet [1], precisely at the first day after the public launching of the Domain Name System, back in Jan 1, 1985. [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORDUnet
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_r...
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#19http://symbolics.com/ is just absolutely absurd now. Audi and Atari advertising next to a work from home scam, a domain name lawyer, a religious university, and a smattering of other random entities.
Somewhat ironically the first domain now just reflects the absolute nature of of the web itself.
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#20What was registering a domain name like in 1986-87?
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