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Post by paulstovell »

We have https://octopus.com, which is on the list. And first registered the year I was born. Has an interesting history: http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/text/2011/d2011...

> Respondent Yana Beklova, who at one stage worked for the Complainant, requested an amount between USD 500,000 and USD 1,000,000 for the transfer of the disputed domain name, that the registrant of the disputed domain name sought to hide its identity through a WhoIs privacy protection service, that the Respondents tried to transfer the disputed domain name out of the reach of the Australian courts to avoid legal proceedings after having received the cease and desist letter, that some of the Respondents named by the Complainant have been involved in previous UDRP proceedings, which suggests a pattern of conduct, and that the disputed domain name was registered to intentionally attract customers looking for the Complainant’s website for commercial gain by creating a likelihood of confusion.

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Post by drchickensalad »

paulstovell wrote: post #131

We have https://octopus.com , which is on the list. And first registered the year I was born. Has an interesting history: http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/text/2011/d2011... > Respondent Yana Beklova, who at one stage worked for the Complainant, requested an amount between USD 500,000 and USD 1,000,000 for the transfer of the disputed domain name, that the registrant of the disputed domain name sought to…

God I love octopus. Thank you for your work!

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Post by _emacsomancer_ »

reaperducer wrote: post #2

Should also include an .edu list. IIRC, rice.edu was the 8th domain registered on the entire internet.

I'm surprised utah.edu is so far down the list, considering the early history of ARPANET. (Well, at least we beat byu.edu, if only barely.)

Re: Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs

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Post by roryisok »

russellbeattie wrote: post #57
invalidusernam3 wrote: post #8

Top 20: symbolics.com - Still exists bbn.com - Redirects to raytheon.com think.com - Dead mcc.com - Redirects to thecryptogenius.com (sometimes, not sure what's going on with it) dec.com - Redirects to paulkocher.com northrop.com - Dead xerox.com - Alive, Xerox website sri.com - Alive hp.com - Alive, HP website bellcore.com - Dead ibm.com - Alive, IBM website sun.com - Alive, sun website (oracle.com) intel.com - Aliv…

Think.com was owned by Oracle for a long time. I always forget that dashes are allowed in domain names.

I assumed it was going to be ThinkPad related. IBM or Lenovo should have snapped it up

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Post by roryisok »

mrbill wrote: post #113
chrissnell wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, they were done by email and were a massive pain in the ass. There was a text file template you'd fill out and email it to ISI. The domains were free but you had to have working nameservers for them and that was the tough part. As a young undergrad in 1993, I wanted to register a few but couldn't find anyone to serve DNS for me. The Vanderbilt IT staff was unwilling to help and I didn't know anybody else until I…

Sup, Chris? I hated having to use the InterNIC template when I was handling domain regs back at that place we were both involved with.

I love when people on hn know each other.

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Post by lou1306 »

roryisok wrote: post #135
russellbeattie wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Think.com was owned by Oracle for a long time. I always forget that dashes are allowed in domain names.

I assumed it was going to be ThinkPad related. IBM or Lenovo should have snapped it up

"Think" was an actual IBM slogan well before ThinkPads. [0] (Which is also the reason behind Apple's "Think Different"). I guess the idea of using slogans as effective domain names wasn't as popular as today.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_(IBM)

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Post by rconti »

smhenderson wrote: post #29
pimlottc wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m pretty sure every possible two letter combination was taken before that policy came out. There used to be an old site that visualized the two- and three-letter domain name space as two- and three-dimensional grids. It was neat seeing the pixels fill in over time.

Looks like you're right - from Wikipedia: Two-letter .com domain names were never reserved. It was possible for anyone to register them in the very early years of the Internet (from 1985 to 1998). The first company to own an active Two Letter Domain is Hewlett-Packard. Since 1998 all permutations of the 26 × 26 = 676 .com domains have been registered and (barring the very unlikely event of a lapse in registration) th…

Yeah, your "early 2000s comment" really stuck out to me. I'm surprised they lasted through 98.

I remember thinking domain names were for people who "really knew what they were doing" and then was pissed I didn't register one before NetSol started charging (IIRC there was a big outcry because Kraft foods registered like 137 domains right before they started charging).

Re: Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs

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Post by gnufx »

I'm surprised no-one has pointed out that many UK academic addresses effectively remain from the days of SRCNET/SERCNET -- I forget when it changed -- in the early '80s, and possibly late '70s. It's just that they've changed from the NRS big-endian scheme (as IP addresses) to DNS little-endian, i.e. liv.ac.uk now, instead of uk.ac.liv where I started. (There was a long and short form of most names, so uk.ac.liv and uk.ac.liverpool were equivalent.) Much confusion between, e.g., cs as computer science and Czechoslovakia in the period when both endians were allowed...
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