The oldest .com domain names

Post by lysium » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 6:06 PM UTC

arihant wrote: post #4

Given that this list spans a little over two years, I'm surprised to see no microsoft.com, all the other tech giants at the time are pretty much in here.

Post by JasonFruit » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 6:07 PM UTC

tsuru wrote: post #5

jordanpg wrote: post #2

Definitely check out the rather weird site at the oldest domain name in the list: http://symbolics.com/

Unfortunately the original was much more hacker friendly and awesome. Lisp Machines! They sold it off several years ago and now live here: http://www.symbolics-dks.com/

Post by hudell » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 6:08 PM UTC

arihant wrote: post #4

Given that this list spans a little over two years, I'm surprised to see no microsoft.com, all the other tech giants at the time are pretty much in here.

Post by nkozyra » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 6:12 PM UTC

JohnTHaller wrote: post #16

nkozyra wrote: post #14

> Domain names have been actually been available for 28 years – yes, before you even knew what a computer looked like. :grouchface:

Oh you mean 2 years after I taught myself to program on a Commodore 64 hooked up to a black and white TV in my bedroom? #getoffmylawn

Post by dbarlett » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 6:18 PM UTC

bonzoq wrote: post #12

Symptomatic Microsoft's domain is not on this list. Looks like they missed the internet revolution.

  Some competitors have a much deeper involvement in the Internet than
  Microsoft. All UNIX vendors are benefiting from the Internet since the
  default server is still a UNIX box and not Windows NT, particularly for
  high end demands, SUN has exploited this quite effectively.
  [...]
  Browsing the Web, you find almost no Microsoft file formats. After 10
  hours of browsing, I had not seen a single Word .DOC, AVI file, Windows
  .EXE (other than content viewers), or other Microsoft file format.
  [...]
  A new competitor “born” on the Internet is Netscape. Their browser is
  dominant, with 70% usage share, allowing them to determine which network
  extensions will catch on. They are pursuing a multi-platform strategy where
  they move the key API into the client to commoditize the underlying operating
  system.