The oldest .com domain names

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Post by amdixon » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 5:34 PM UTC

The oldest .com domain names
domainholdings.com

Re: The oldest .com domain names

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Post by jordanpg » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 5:40 PM UTC

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

Re: The oldest .com domain names

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Post by Igglyboo » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 5:50 PM UTC

jordanpg wrote: post #2

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

Disappointed that the oldest site ever can hire a decent frontend guy, slow and buggy on chrome on my mbp.

Re: The oldest .com domain names

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Post by arihant » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 5:50 PM UTC

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.

Re: The oldest .com domain names

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Post by tsuru » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 5:51 PM UTC

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/

Re: The oldest .com domain names

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Post by arihant » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 5:53 PM UTC

jordanpg wrote: post #2

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

Apparently the company sold it to some guy. Here is the story - http://symbolics.com/about-symbolics/

Can't comment on how true it is.

Re: The oldest .com domain names

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Post by fps » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 5:54 PM UTC

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.

Re: The oldest .com domain names

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Post by cema » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 6:00 PM UTC

Igglyboo wrote: post #3

jordanpg wrote: post #2

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

Disappointed that the oldest site ever can hire a decent frontend guy, slow and buggy on chrome on my mbp.

It is not the oldest site, just the oldest .com domain.

Re: The oldest .com domain names

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Post by ca98am79 » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 6:04 PM UTC

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"

Re: The oldest .com domain names

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Post by currysausage » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 6:04 PM UTC

jordanpg wrote: post #2

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

I have a 50 Mbps connection. After 1 minute and 10 seconds, it has loaded 3.6 MB and is still displaying a white spinning wheel on a beautiful blue background. Amazing.