The oldest .com domains..

No surprise that a lot of those domains that got registered are now some of the biggest companies around. How much did it cost you buy a domain back then?
 
That's really interesting! Good find!

Oooo IBM..
 
lol, ALL of those domains are older than me :o
 
Talk about a return on your investment. Pay $100 to register a domain and then sell it 12 years later for around 10 million. If only I wasn't in diapers at the time :)
 
Only the 4 first are older than me :) But where is microsoft.com? Shouldn't that be on that list? And where's AlGore.com since he invented it and all :E
 
StardogChampion said:
No surprise that a lot of those domains that got registered are now some of the biggest companies around. How much did it cost you buy a domain back then?
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You'll notice that most of those are tech companies that were already big when they registered those domain names, companies like IBM and Xerox have been around forever. It probably didn't cost much (if anything) to register those domain names since the entire system was very experimental at that stage.
 
Where's Halflife2.net?

Didnt we like 'make' the interweb?
 
Nintend0.com and yahoo.com were one of the first websites I went to back in '95.
But wow, these were OLD! ^_^
 
Tied for 30th, "Fluke.Com", registered Oct 1986. :( Man, I was 16 years too late when I tried to register that domain.
 
my brother picked up a .com domain for a couple of quid aaages ago, and sold it a few weeks ago for a cool £5,000

There must have been a long time where there were lots of registered domains but not a lot of users ... I first went online in 1993 but the internet back then was still very much in its infancy... didnt look like it was 8+ years old anyway.

atleast there wasnt any spam back then though ... or cs kiddy lamers
 
lol one of the earliest is Tandy.com...well, it's joint 50 on the list. I tihnk thats funny... if anyone in britain remembers the electricals store... i wonder what happened to them...:stare:
 
burnzie said:
*gasp*

I'm Sigged!

:D
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You sure are. That's the tagline to one of my favorite movies, and you just made it funny-so I had to sig it. :cheers:
 
woo, MCC.com was registered the day I was born! \o/
 
oldagerocker said:
lol one of the earliest is Tandy.com...well, it's joint 50 on the list. I tihnk thats funny... if anyone in britain remembers the electricals store... i wonder what happened to them...:stare:
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they made electronics in america too, my first computer was a tandy with the horizontal green lines... ewwww
 
Only two of those are older than me! Yay!

Heh. But holy crap, I didn't even realize .com's were around back then, at least reserved anyways. I knew the internet was. Crazy stuff.
 
Alec_85 said:
Only the 4 first are older than me :) But where is microsoft.com? Shouldn't that be on that list? And where's AlGore.com since he invented it and all :E
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Salon.com said:
Several of the people who could claim to have "invented" the Internet, or key pieces of its protocols -- in particular, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn -- are out there on the Net today [written on October 05, 2000] defending Gore [broken link], asserting that he was the politician in Washington who took the "initiative" to support the Net in its early days.
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The broken link might be referring to this:
Al Gore and the Internet

By Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf

Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the
Internet and to promote and support its development.

No one person or even small group of persons exclusively "invented" the
Internet. It is the result of many years of ongoing collaboration among
people in government and the university community. But as the two people
who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the
Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a
Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to
our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.

Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his
role. He said: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the
initiative in creating the Internet." We don't think, as some people have
argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover,
there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's
initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving
Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and
promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it
is timely to offer our perspective.

As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed
telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the
improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official
to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact
than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship. Though easily
forgotten, now, at the time this was an unproven and controversial
concept. Our work on the Internet started in 1973 and was based on even
earlier work that took place in the mid-late 1960s. But the Internet, as we
know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in
the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual
leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high
speed computing and communication. As an example, he sponsored hearings on
how advanced technologies might be put to use in areas like coordinating
the response of government agencies to natural disasters and other crises.

As a Senator in the 1980s Gore urged government agencies to consolidate
what at the time were several dozen different and unconnected networks into
an "Interagency Network." Working in a bi-partisan manner with officials
in Ronald Reagan and George Bush's administrations, Gore secured the
passage of the High Performance Computing and Communications Act in
1991. This "Gore Act" supported the National Research and Education
Network (NREN) initiative that became one of the major vehicles for the
spread of the Internet beyond the field of computer science.

As Vice President Gore promoted building the Internet both up and out, as
well as releasing the Internet from the control of the government agencies
that spawned it. He served as the major administration proponent for
continued investment in advanced computing and networking and private
sector initiatives such as Net Day. He was and is a strong proponent of
extending access to the network to schools and libraries. Today,
approximately 95% of our nation's schools are on the Internet. Gore
provided much-needed political support for the speedy privatization of the
Internet when the time arrived for it to become a commercially-driven
operation.

There are many factors that have contributed to the Internet's rapid growth
since the later 1980s, not the least of which has been political support
for its privatization and continued support for research in advanced
networking technology. No one in public life has been more intellectually
engaged in helping to create the climate for a thriving Internet than the
Vice President. Gore has been a clear champion of this effort, both in the
councils of government and with the public at large.

The Vice President deserves credit for his early recognition of the value
of high speed computing and communication and for his long-term and
consistent articulation of the potential value of the Internet to American
citizens and industry and, indeed, to the rest of the world.
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Werent they free or something if you just had the ability to register them?
 
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