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!