Top 10 Oldest .com Domains in the World
Before the days of the world wide web, the internet was accessible to a few select institutions; namely academia, corporate, and government. Sometime during the early 1980’s a lightbulb went off in the minds of the great technological forward-thinkers. They must have predicted that the entire world would one day be connected by a highspeed computer network. Could they have envisioned the world wide web evolving into what it is today? That is highly doubtful. Nontheless, they were smart enough to register the first .com domain names in existance; and well before their time. 2 notable names on this list are Hewlett-Packard and Xerox. Here is a list of the 10 oldest .com domain names in the world. These date back to the mid 1980’s, before the world wide web ever existed.
10) bellcore.com - March 5, 1986.
9) hp.com - March 3, 1986
8] sri.com - January 17, 1986
7) xerox.com - January 9, 1986
6) northrop.com - November 7, 1985
5) dec.com - September 30, 1985
4) mcc.com - July 11, 1985
3) think.com - May 24, 1985
2) bbn.com - April 24, 1985
1) symbolics.com - March 15, 1985
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July 23rd, 2008 at 6:30 am
Great find. Curious how does registering domains going in those times.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Hello Random Blog,
Good question. I’m not sure how you could register a domain in those days. Probably through a little-known government outlet or IT organization.
See you around!
July 31st, 2008 at 3:10 pm
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August 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 am
just curious, how much will it worth if they sell it?
August 10th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Hello StuckS,
Indeed that is a good question. I think that the worth of the .com would be determined by the typical factors common to all .coms, rather then the age of the domain name itself. Who knows, maybe it would be of worth to IT historians!
Thanks for dropping in!