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Re: The oldest .com domain names

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Post by jgeorge »

ca98am79 wrote: post #9

Why does #45 have a space in it? "Data IO.com" If you look up dataio.com, it says the creation date is October 10, 1997: http://who.is/whois/dataIO.com I assume this is a typo? Or could domains have spaces in them back then? EDIT: I see from the wikipedia page it is actually "data-io.com"

Creation dates are from the most recent domain creation record, and can be reset from a domain ownership transfer. I lost my precious domain creation date of September 1993 when I transfered my domain from the ISP who registered it /in their own name/ (argh) to my own ownership in 1998.

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Post by zwieback »

Glad to see we (HP) have a pretty old one and we have DEC as well, I'm guessing we're the biggest holder of class A addresses. Now we're splitting so it'll be interesting to see how that gets distributed.

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Post by zwieback »

mritun wrote: post #18
JohnTHaller wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You had a Commodore 64 ? Kids these days...

I'm afraid to admit I was an Apple ][ snob when the C64 came out although secretly I envied some of the C64's capabilities.

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Post by jccalhoun »

fps wrote: post #7

This is more accurately the 100 oldest .com domains - Wikipedia's list ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_re... ) includes the list for the other TLDs. For example, it looks like 5 .edu domains were added at the same time as bbn.com was on April 24, 1985.

True. It looks like nordu.net is the oldest active domain having been registered on January 1, 1985 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORDUnet#Distinction

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Post by mhandley »

fps wrote: post #7

This is more accurately the 100 oldest .com domains - Wikipedia's list ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_re... ) includes the list for the other TLDs. For example, it looks like 5 .edu domains were added at the same time as bbn.com was on April 24, 1985.

Even that list is incomplete, as it misses the country-code domains. For example, ucl.ac.uk was in DNS sometime in mid 1985 (http://domainincite.com/2657-was-this-the-first-ever-uk-doma...) But DNS registration wasn't the beginning of domain names - before DNS there was hosts.txt and some "new-style" domain names found their way in there before DNS.

This document ftp://ftp.maths.tcd.ie/src/mail/mmdf-Maths/doc/auth.ps from April 1985 by Steve Kille at UCL includes a server log (page 5) that lists hosts in cambridge.ac.uk, rsre.ac.uk, ukc.ac.uk, and rutherford.ac.uk in use all before the domain names were registered in DNS.

Disclaimer: I've had the same cs.ucl.ac.uk email address since I was a student in Sept 1985. Now I'm feeling old.

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Post by itafroma »

danvoell wrote: post #27

I find adobe.com really interesting. What were they doing back then?

> I find adobe.com really interesting. What were they doing back then?

Adobe was founded by ex-Xerox PARC employees, so perhaps not surprisingly their first couple of successes were printing related: PostScript and Type 1 fonts in 1982 and 1984, respectively. By 1986 they were working in desktop publishing with the development of Illustrator.

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