35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.com was registered
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Re: 35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.com was registered
#2First-ever domain was registered in 1985. Many others were kept being registered since then. But what are the first used domains up to these days?
100 Oldest Domain Names & Their Current Status: https://dofo.com/blog/oldest-domain-names/
Re: 35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.com was registered
#3RFC 882, which defined domain-style addressing, was released in 1983:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc882
There was domain-style addressing that predated domains like ".com" and ".edu". The original top-level domains were ".arpa" (for ARPANET) and ".mil" (for MILNET).
Symbolics was "symbolics.arpa" before it was "symbolics.com".
Re: 35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.com was registered
#4Hope someone's remembered to renew it. :P
Re: 35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.com was registered
#5RFC 882, which defined domain-style addressing, was released in 1983: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc882 There was domain-style addressing that predated domains like ".com" and ".edu". The original top-level domains were ".arpa" (for ARPANET) and ".mil" (for MILNET). Symbolics was "symbolics.arpa" before it was "symbolics.com".
So instead of "the first domain name was registered", maybe it would be more accurate to say "the first registration of a domain name with a registry took place"?
Re: 35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.com was registered
#6First-ever domain was registered in 1985. Many others were kept being registered since then. But what are the first used domains up to these days? 100 Oldest Domain Names & Their Current Status: https://dofo.com/blog/oldest-domain-names/
Thank you, interesting link. I had for a long time thought symbolics.com was the first "modern style" domain to have been registered, but it looks like it was actually nordu.net, even if the intention was to use it for a root server.
Re: 35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.com was registered
#7RFC 882, which defined domain-style addressing, was released in 1983: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc882 There was domain-style addressing that predated domains like ".com" and ".edu". The original top-level domains were ".arpa" (for ARPANET) and ".mil" (for MILNET). Symbolics was "symbolics.arpa" before it was "symbolics.com".
If anyone knows: How were RFCs distributed before the modern Internet as we know it existed?
Re: 35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.com was registered
#8I wonder what the first UUCP nodes were named.
Re: 35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.com was registered
#9RFC 882, which defined domain-style addressing, was released in 1983: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc882 There was domain-style addressing that predated domains like ".com" and ".edu". The original top-level domains were ".arpa" (for ARPANET) and ".mil" (for MILNET). Symbolics was "symbolics.arpa" before it was "symbolics.com".
If anyone knows: How were RFCs distributed before the modern Internet as we know it existed?
I believe these were distributed via FTP from InterNIC at SRI[1].
Re: 35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.com was registered
#10First-ever domain was registered in 1985. Many others were kept being registered since then. But what are the first used domains up to these days? 100 Oldest Domain Names & Their Current Status: https://dofo.com/blog/oldest-domain-names/
That page doesn’t seem reliable—it says various domains have been used for websites since 1986.