Monday, January 25, 2010

Top 10 Oldest Domain Names on The Internet

Top 10 Oldest Domain Names on The Internet  
The domain name is the Internet address that is used to uniquely identify a computer or a website connected to the Internet. These names appear as a component of a Web site's URL. Here is the list of the first 10 domain names ever registered on the Internet.


1. SYMBOLICS.COM (registered on15-Mar-1985)

2. BBN.COM (registered on 24-Apr-1985)

3. THINK.COM (registered on 24-May-1985)

4. MCC.COM (registered on 11-Jul-1985)

5. DEC.COM (registered on 30-Sep-1985)

6. NORTHROP.COM (registered on 07-Nov-1985)

7. XEROX.COM (registered on 09-Jan-1986)

8. SRI.COM (registered on 17-Jan-1986)

9. HP.COM (registered on 03-Mar-1986)

10. BELLCORE.COM (registered on 05-Mar-1986)

It's surprising to see the first domains were registered way back in 1985. I would have thought that they came into being no early than 1990 because Tim Burnes Lee - the father of the World Wide Web - invented the web only in early 1990s. That means the first WWW addresses were registers even before the WWW was invented!

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