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Top 100 List of the internet's First Registered Domain Names

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  • Gadren, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30Very cool.
    But why wasn't it just named "First 100 Registered Domain Names?"
  • stklaw, on 10/10/2007, -2/+31That's right.
    The internet's first web page is a 404 page.
  • Bricks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29Let me get this straight. 100 domains, but no trace of the following words: "busty," "amateur," "donkey," "webcam."
    I don't know that I have an imagination powerful enough to imagine such a world..
  • ElRayQuieres, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24"lier"? you lose.
  • branndon, on 10/10/2007, -4/+27The first 100 .com's to be registered:

    1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM (1998 Archive - http://web.archive.org/web/199812070...www/index.html)
    2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM (1996 http://web.archive.org/web/199612231...//www.bbn.com/)
    3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM (1997 http://web.archive.org/web/199702182...www.think.com/)
    4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM (1997 http://web.archive.org/web/199702140...//www.mcc.com/)
    5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM (Not Available)
    6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM (1999 http://web.archive.org/web/199901251...northgrum.com/)
    7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM (1996 http://web.archive.org/web/199610221...www.xerox.com/)
    8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM (1996 http://web.archive.org/web/199612151...ttp://sri.com/)
    9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM (1996 http://web.archive.org/web/199612201...://www.hp.com/)
    10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM (1997 http://web.archive.org/web/199710122....bellcore.com/)
    11. 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM (1996 http://web.archive.org/web/199610221...//www.ibm.com/)
    12. 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM (1996 http://web.archive.org/web/199610200...//www.sun.com/)
    13. 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM (1996 http://web.archive.org/web/199610221...ww3.intel.com/)
    14. 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM (1996 http://web.archive.org/web/199612192...://www.ti.com/)
    15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM (1996 http://web.archive.org/web/199610291...//www.att.com/ Beware this page trys to load Java and might mess up your browser like it did mine. I use FireFox.)
    16. 08-May-1986 GMR.COM (1996 http://web.archive.org/web/199612270...//www.grm.com/)
    17. 08-May-1986 TEK.COM (1998 http://web.archive.org/web/199801140...//www.tek.com/)
    18. 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM (1997 http://web.archive.org/web/199707070...com/index.html)
    19. 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM (Unavailable)
    20. 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM (1998 http://web.archive.org/web/199812012....bell-atl.com/)
    21. 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM (1996 http://web.archive.org/web/199611050...://www.ge.com/)
    22. 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM (1999 http://web.archive.org/web/199901162...ww.grebyn.com/ (just the URL on a page)
    23. 05-Aug-1986 ISC.COM (1997 http://web.archive.org/web/199701030...//www.isc.com/)
    24. 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM (1997 http://web.archive.org/web/199702181...//www.nsc.com/)
    25. 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM (1998 http://web.archive.org/web/199811111....stargate.com/)
    26. 02-Sep-1986 BOEING.COM (1996 http://web.archive.org/web/199610191...w1.boeing.com/)
    27. 18-Sep-1986 ITCORP.COM (None Available)
    28. 29-Sep-1986 SIEMENS.COM (1996 http://web.archive.org/web/199612262...w.siemens.com/)
    29. 18-Oct-1986 PYRAMID.COM (1998 http://web.archive.org/web/199812050...ome/index.html)
    30. 27-Oct-1986 ALPHACDC.COM (Not Available)
    31. 27-Oct-1986 BDM.COM
    32. 27-Oct-1986 FLUKE.COM
    33. 27-Oct-1986 INMET.COM
    34. 27-Oct-1986 KESMAI.COM
    35. 7-Oct-1986 MENTOR.COM
    36. 7-Oct-1986 NEC.COM
    37. 27-Oct-1986 RAY.COM
    38. 27-Oct-1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM
    39. 27-Oct-1986 VORTEX.COM
    40. 05-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM
    41. 05-Nov-1986 GTE.COM
    42. 17-Nov-1986 ADOBE.COM
    43. 17-Nov-1986 AMD.COM
    44. 17-Nov-1986 DAS.COM
    45. 17-Nov-1986 DATA-IO.COM
    46. 17-Nov-1986 OCTOPUS.COM
    47. 17-Nov-1986 PORTAL.COM
    48. 17-Nov-1986 TELTONE.COM
    49. 11-Dec-1986 3COM.COM
    50. 11-Dec-1986 AMDAHL.COM
    51. 11-Dec-1986 CCUR.COM
    52. 11-Dec-1986 CI.COM
    53. 11-Dec-1986 CONVERGENT.COM
    54. 11-Dec-1986 DG.COM
    55. 11-Dec-1986 PEREGRINE.COM
    56. 11-Dec-1986 QUAD.COM
    57. 11-Dec-1986 SQ.COM
    58. 11-Dec-1986 TANDY.COM
    59. 11-Dec-1986 TTI.COM
    60. 11-Dec-1986 UNISYS.COM
    61. 19-Jan-1987 CGI.COM
    62. 19-Jan-1987 CTS.COM
    63. 19-Jan-1987 SPDCC.COM
    64. 19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COM
    65. 04-Mar-1987 NMA.COM
    66. 04-Mar-1987 PRIME.COM
    67. 04-Apr-1987 PHILIPS.COM
    68. 23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM
    69. 23-Apr-1987 KAI.COM
    70. 23-Apr-1987 TIC.COM
    71. 23-Apr-1987 VINE.COM
    72. 30-Apr-1987 NCR.COM
    73. 14-May-1987 CISCO.COM
    74. 14-May-1987 RDL.COM
    75. 20-May-1987 SLB.COM
    76. 27-May-1987 PARCPLACE.COM
    77. 27-May-1987 UTC.COM
    78. 26-Jun-1987 IDE.COM
    79. 09-Jul-1987 TRW.COM
    80. 13-Jul-1987 UNIPRESS.COM
    81. 27-Jul-1987 DUPONT.COM
    82. 27-Jul-1987 LOCKHEED.COM
    83. 28-Jul-1987 ROSETTA.COM
    84. 18-Aug-1987 TOAD.COM
    85. 31-Aug-1987 QUICK.COM
    86. 03-Sep-1987 ALLIED.COM
    87. 03-Sep-1987 DSC.COM
    88. 03-Sep-1987 SCO.COM
    89. 22-Sep-1987 GENE.COM
    90. 22-Sep-1987 KCCS.COM
    91. 22-Sep-1987 SPECTRA.COM
    92. 22-Sep-1987 WLK.COM
    93. 30-Sep-1987 MENTAT.COM
    94. 14-Oct-1987 WYSE.COM
    95. 02-Nov-1987 CFG.COM
    96. 09-Nov-1987 MARBLE.COM
    97. 16-Nov-1987 CAYMAN.COM
    97. 16-Nov-1987 ENTITY.COM
    99. 24-Nov-1987 KSR.COM
    100. 30-Nov-1987 NYNEXST.COM
  • johney5, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20"Top 1 worse names of first story names ever." what?
  • shyanbelle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17I had a problem loading this link so I just went right to their forums from the main page and the technology section and it worked fine that way. Here is the direct URL
    http://forum.popuplace.com/showthread.php?t=338997
  • 11Heather, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18Cool! If only I had a time machine...
  • yomamaisfat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I'm surprised porn names aren't at the top of the list. The porn industry is like the Nostradamus of new technology.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Apple in 87, but where is Microsoft?. Damn, Tandy even came in before Apple and MS.
  • ApplCmptrDood, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11My dad had the chance to squat NYSE.org, .com, etc. He didn't take it :(
  • nysus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10In the first few months of the Internet, no one but the technical elite knew how to even register a domain name, let alone figure out that they would someday be worth money. The first 100 domains were certainly registered by the actual companies.
  • sleeknerve, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9the second one
  • elvisjulep, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Mentat.com. Score one for the Dune fans.
  • BJNK, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12I swear between Digg and FARK, they just keep recycling each others stories. On Digg Monday, on FARK Wednesday.. On FARK Tuesday, on Digg Thursday..

    Or maybe I just spend too much time wasting time online.....
  • MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9He got "liar "wrong, but he got "lose" right... I think he breaks even.
  • nymphetamine, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8http://duggmirror.com/tech_news/Top_100_List_of_the_internet_s_First_Registered_Domain_Names/
  • crushfan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6LOL, the Internet.
  • DiggDugglas, on 10/10/2007, -7/+13Interesting stuff. It should be noted that few of those domains were actually registered to the companies they're named after. Most of these were domain squatters.
  • buddamus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7wish i bought Microsoft.com and made a porn site
  • CubiX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Technically it's not 404. It's a database error, so it's more like 505 (internal server error) or something like that.
  • kjcdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5You could say the funniest thing in the world, but if you spam you will be dugg down.
  • Psyber1an, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5...you'll find The Wayback Machine over at archive.org...
  • counterplex, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4He might not be a lier (sic) but you're an idiet (sic).
  • ummmmm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Those sites don't pass the XHTML validator!
  • The0, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Thanks for saving us the time and effort by identifying your biggest personal failure all by yourself.
  • nakile, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Wow. Symbolics still works. Wonder if it's the same company from back in 85?

    Here's a better question: What was a .com domain name even used for back then? I have no clue.
  • inkswamp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'll probably get buried for pointing this out despite it being a fact, but Microsoft's execs around the late-80s and early-90s are on record with their collective doubts about the future of the Internet. There was a general sense that the Internet was not where computing was going. I have no idea how they could have possibly thought that, but once things like AOL and the WWW/Netscape started becoming household words, MS reversed course pretty quickly.
  • ummmmm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Wow check out the source code of those sites!
  • grbruner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+32.5 years to register 100 domain names...I bet we do 100 new names a bit faster these days.
  • Kitsune818, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I think it's important to point out a bit of context regarding these domains. They were probably not intended for the public at large to find them. At the time, there was very little public with access to the network to be an audience. A lot of you are looking at this like they registered their company names to provide a public "point of presence", such as hosting a website, but I don't even think we had gopher in 85. Domains were not PR, they were just so things could get routed more efficiently.. probably mostly email and FTP traffic between colleagues. I'm pretty sure we were still using bang-path addresses then, too.
  • Kitsune818, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Because ASCII didn't have the same impact.
    (_o_)
  • Urusai, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3They didn't have pictures on the Internets back then. All of the pictures were still on BBSes.
  • crazzy88ss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2hey my dad worked for Mentor back in the day.
  • jamangold, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Symbolics.com is still as simplistic today as it was in 1998 (the earliest archive that exists for it).
  • mcmullet, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3How did you register a domain name in 1985 or 1986 anyway?
  • skav, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2[quote]by BJNK 28 minutes ago
    Biggest personal failure? That's awfully presumptuous of you.
    [/quote]

    Yeah! Homeboy's got some WAYY bigger failures, oh BELIEVE ME GIRLFRIEND

    -BJNK's wife
  • skuk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2sco.com what a shame what happened to them.
  • resplence, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Interesting to note that Apple (was) registered before Microsoft.
  • Kitsune818, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21) The webpage which you apparently loaded says that they are not the same company in almost the first sentence.
    2) .com was (and still is) intended for "Commercial" entities, which were somewhat nouveau and rare at the time. ~85, the majority of the people on the network were still government, educational, and research staff. It's around 85 when people were starting to get pissed about the commercialization of one of man's greatest intellectual achievements, and tried to section them (commercial types) off with their own domain. It didn't work.
  • rss2pdf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2What, no triple-hyphen-umlauts ?
  • tetfsu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1SYMBOLICS.COM
    The first .COM domain, looks like it hasn't changed the site's look in 22 years. This web page is older than the average age of Digg users.
  • yorxs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I am confused, what is the purpose of registering a domain name in 1985 if the World Wide Web was not invented until 1989 IIRC? How did some view contect pre WWW?
  • Kitsune818, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Tandy had a somewhat lucrative Aggricultural text service around that time, whose terminal eventually became the Tandy Color Computer. Some claim the original specs for the CoCo line included an ethernet port.. could have been related. However, I doubt they intended to do much with the domain for home users. At the time, very few end users had access to the network, so most likely it was something internal. There was no "public presence" paradigm like we associate with a .com today.
  • wassim2k, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2DatabaseError.com
  • LeapFrog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The article misses the point that hundreds, if not thousands of .mil, .edu, and .com domains were registered in the Domain Name System after its creation and well before the transfer of management responsibility of the DNS registry to the private sector. That is why you don't see names like "honeywell.com" in the supposed '1st 100' list. Honeywell produced many of the Internet Message Processors that were among the first network nodes on ARPANET, and honeywell.com was in the DNS in the 1970's - long, long before the date shown on the current registry.

    http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/pressingissues2000/briefingbook/dnshistory.html
    Buried as inaccurate.
  • findhostcoupons, on 03/21/2009, -0/+1Great list, very interesting to know!
  • darthmoonman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1again with the list, is it that time of the year again?
  • Kitsune818, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You called up InterNIC, which handled things until about 1999 IIRC.
  • duck_oil, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You shouldn't get bured, it's true. MS can thank J Allard for alerting them to this thing called the Internet.
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