Oldest domain names
February 10th, 2010 by Andreas from Xavier Media® in Domain names, Statistics, The World According to Xavier. Topics: .com, Domain names, HP, IBM, SunSometimes it's fantastic to just watch some statistics or even just a bullet list 
. This time I have a list of the oldest domain names ever. Did you know that it took 2 years to get 100 registered domain names back in 1985-7? This list is the oldest .com domain names still active, so there may have been other domain names registered back in 1985-7 that the owners have dropped (not renewed).
- 1. symbolics.com: March 15, 1985
- 2. bbn.com: April 24, 1985
- 3. think.com: May 24, 1985
- 4. mcc.com: July 11, 1985
- 5. dec.com: September 30, 1985
- 6. northrop.com: November 7, 1985
- 7. xerox.com: January 9, 1986
- 8. sri.com: January 17, 1986
- 9. hp.com: March 3, 1986
- 10. bellcore.com: March 5, 1986
- 11. ibm.com: March 19, 1986
- 12. sun.com: March 19, 1986
- 13. intel.com: March 25, 1986
- 14. ti.com: March 25, 1986
- 15. att.com: April 25, 1986
- 16. gmr.com: May 8, 1986
- 17. tek.com: May 8, 1986
- 18. fmc.com: July 10, 1986
- 19. ub.com: July 10, 1986
- 20. bell-atl.com: August 5, 1986
- 21. ge.com: August 5, 1986
- 22. grebyn.com: August 5, 1986
- 23. isc.com: August 5, 1986
- 24. nsc.com: August 5, 1986
- 25. stargate.com: August 5, 1986
- 26. boeing.com: September 2, 1986
- 27. itcorp.com: September 18, 1986
- 28. siemens.com: September 29, 1986
- 29. pyramid.com: October 18, 1986
- 30. alphacdc.com: October 27, 1986
- 31. bdm.com: October 27, 1986
- 32. fluke.com: October 27, 1986
- 33. inmet.com: October 27, 1986
- 34. kesmai.com: October 27, 1986
- 35. mentor.com: October 27, 1986
- 36. nec.com: October 27, 1986
- 37. ray.com: October 27, 1986
- 38. rosemount.com: October 27, 1986
- 39. vortex.com: October 27, 1986
- 40. alcoa.com: November 5, 1986
- 41. gte.com: November 5, 1986
- 42. adobe.com: November 17, 1986
- 43. amd.com: November 17, 1986
- 44. das.com: November 17, 1986
- 45. data-io.com: November 17, 1986
- 46. octopus.com: November 17, 1986
- 47. portal.com: November 17, 1986
- 48. teltone.com: November 17, 1986
- 49. 3com.com: December 11, 1986
- 50. amdahl.com: December 11, 1986
- 51. ccur.com: December 11, 1986
- 52. ci.com: December 11, 1986
- 53. convergent.com: December 11, 1986
- 54. dg.com: December 11, 1986
- 55. peregrine.com: December 11, 1986
- 56. quad.com: December 11, 1986
- 57. sq.com: December 11, 1986
- 58. tandy.com: December 11, 1986
- 59. tti.com: December 11, 1986
- 60. unisys.com: December 11, 1986
- 61. cgi.com: January 19, 1987
- 62. cts.com: January 19, 1987
- 63. spdcc.com: January 19, 1987
- 64. apple.com: February 19, 1987
- 65. nma.com: March 4, 1987
- 66. prime.com: March 4, 1987
- 67. philips.com: April 4, 1987
- 68. datacube.com: April 23, 1987
- 69. kai.com: April 23, 1987
- 70. tic.com: April 23, 1987
- 71. vine.com: April 23, 1987
- 72. ncr.com: April 30, 1987
- 73. cisco.com: May 14, 1987
- 74. rdl.com: May 14, 1987
- 75. slb.com: May 20, 1987
- 76. parcplace.com: May 27, 1987
- 77. utc.com: May 27, 1987
- 78. ide.com: June 26, 1987
- 79. trw.com: July 9, 1987
- 80. unipress.com: July 13, 1987
- 81. dupont.com: July 27, 1987
- 82. lockheed.com: July 27, 1987
- 83. rosetta.com: July 28, 1987
- 84. toad.com: August 18, 1987
- 85. quick.com: August 31, 1987
- 86. allied.com: September 3, 1987
- 87. dsc.com: September 3, 1987
- 88. sco.com: September 3, 1987
- 89. gene.com: September 22, 1987
- 90. kccs.com: September 22, 1987
- 91. spectra.com: September 22, 1987
- 92. wlk.com: September 22, 1987
- 93. mentat.com: September 30, 1987
- 94. wyse.com: October 14, 1987
- 95. cfg.com: November 2, 1987
- 96. marble.com: November 9, 1987
- 97. cayman.com: November 16, 1987
- 98. entity.com: November 16, 1987
- 99. ksr.com: November 24, 1987
- 100. nynexst.com: November 30, 1987
About the authorAndreas co-founded Xavier Media® in 1996 and has since been involved in all kinds of development, marketing and making money online.
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