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Re: Oldest Domain Names

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Post by thenmar » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 4:15 PM UTC

rafaelm wrote: post #14

R_Edward wrote: post #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 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.)

A lot of people did exactly this!

Re: Oldest Domain Names

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Post by snowwrestler » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 4:21 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #8

Wait, 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?

Going from memory, but I think the 3-letter TLDs came later, all at once. I'm pretty sure the nation codes (2 letters) preceded them.

Re: Oldest Domain Names

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Post by breadbox » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 4:27 PM UTC

jobigoud wrote: post #13

bandy wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, domain names have always been case-insensitive, just like e-mail addresses.

E-mail addresses are case sensitive.

The domain-name part of an email address is case-insensitive.

Re: Oldest Domain Names

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Post by futileboy » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 4:32 PM UTC

TwistedWeasel wrote: post #4

No Microsoft.com? Late to the party?

They were late to the internet party all around. But when they did decide to get on the ball they put a lot of the leaders out of business by finally putting the TCP/IP stack in the OS. Which really was a good idea in the early 90s.

Re: Oldest Domain Names

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Post by hebleb » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 4:39 PM UTC

Interesting that think.com is owned by Oracle instead of IBM

Re: Oldest Domain Names

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Post by kahirsch » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 5:03 PM UTC

jobigoud wrote: post #13

bandy wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, domain names have always been case-insensitive, just like e-mail addresses.

E-mail addresses are case sensitive.

Theoretically, this could be true. Are there any email systems that are actually case-sensitive?

Re: Oldest Domain Names

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Post by cafard » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 5:14 PM UTC

Wow. Just at a glance, three minicomputer companies that have since vanished: DEC, DG, Prime. On the UNIX side, Sun and SCO, for mainframes Amdahl.

But I remember well downloading stuff from gatekeeper.dec.com.

Re: Oldest Domain Names

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Post by bradleyjg » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 5:15 PM UTC

IgorPartola wrote: post #11

Why are there so many of them that share dates of registration?

Probably because Jon Postal batched up requests and entered them all at the same time, rather than entering them as soon as the requests came in.

Re: Oldest Domain Names

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Post by kilroy123 » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 5:15 PM UTC

Why was stargate.com registered in August 5, 1986, and what was that for? The movie and show didn't come out for another 9-10 years.

Re: Oldest Domain Names

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Post by joezydeco » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 5:20 PM UTC

kilroy123 wrote: post #29

Why was stargate.com registered in August 5, 1986, and what was that for? The movie and show didn't come out for another 9-10 years.

But the videogame had been out for five. Who knows?