100 oldest registered .com domains

**Mie1** · 30th January 2010, 01:01 PM

This year it is 25 years ago that the first domains were registered. A geeky question:

Where were you in 1985 ... if born by then?

By then I was doing what I do now (writing) ... but on a 4.77 MHz PC with TWO 5 1/4" floppy drives, a 20MB hard drive and 512 kiB memory (which I expanded to 640 kiB)! The monitor was green and either 11 or 13 inches!!

It was computer heaven in those days!! My first word processor was called EasyWord and the whole programme fitted on a floppy AND I had plenty of space left for articles, etc!

Oh, before I forget: NO Windows then. The first Operating System I used happened to be DOS (3.2, I think), so it was all keyboard input ... the mouse came later.

Yes, you are right: Windows 1.0 (actually 1.01) did debut in 1985 too! It took most of us in Namibia a little bit to catch up. Most of us starting using Windows only when 3.0/3,1 came onto the market!

Here are the domains in order of registration:

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 Rank  Create date	   	Domain name
1.   	15 Mar 1985	   	Symbolics.com
2.   	24 Apr 1985	   	BBN.com
3.   	24 May 1985	   	Think.com
4.   	11 Jul 1985	   	MCC.com
5.   	30 Sep 1985	   	DEC.com
6.   	07 Nov 1985	   	Northrop.com
7.   	09 Jan 1986	   	Xerox.com
8.   	17 Jan 1986	   	SRI.com
9.   	03 Mar 1986	   	HP.com
10.   	05 Mar 1986	   	Bellcore.com
11.   	19 Mar 1986	   	IBM.com
11.   	19 Mar 1986	   	Sun.com
13.   	25 Mar 1986	   	Intel.com
13.   	25 Mar 1986	   	TI.com
15.   	25 Apr 1986	   	ATT.com
16.   	08 May 1986	   	GMR.com
16.   	08 May 1986	   	TEK.com
18.   	10 Jul 1986	   	FMC.com
18.   	10 Jul 1986	   	UB.com
20.   	05 Aug 1986	   	Bell-ATL.com
20.   	05 Aug 1986	   	GE.com
20.   	05 Aug 1986	   	Grebyn.com
20.   	05 Aug 1986	   	ISC.com
20.   	05 Aug 1986	   	NSC.com
20.   	05 Aug 1986	   	Stargate.com
26.   	02 Sep 1986	   	Boeing.com
27.   	18 Sep 1986	   	ITCorp.com
28.   	29 Sep 1986	   	Siemens.com
29.   	18 Oct 1986	   	Pyramid.com
30.   	27 Oct 1986	   	AlphaCDC.com
30.   	27 Oct 1986	   	BDM.com
30.   	27 Oct 1986	   	Fluke.com
30.   	27 Oct 1986	   	Inmet.com
30.   	27 Oct 1986	   	Kesmai.com
30.   	27 Oct 1986	   	Mentor.com
30.   	27 Oct 1986	   	NEC.com
30.   	27 Oct 1986	   	Ray.com
30.   	27 Oct 1986	   	Rosemount.com
30.   	27 Oct 1986	   	Vortex.com
40.   	05 Nov 1986	   	Alcoa.com
40.   	05 Nov 1986	   	GTE.com
42.   	17 Nov 1986	   	Adobe.com
42.   	17 Nov 1986	   	AMD.com
42.   	17 Nov 1986	   	DAS.com
42.   	17 Nov 1986	   	Data IO.com
42.   	17 Nov 1986	   	Octopus.com
42.   	17 Nov 1986	   	Portal.com
42.   	17 Nov 1986	   	Teltone.com
42.   	11 Dec 1986	   	3Com.com
50.   	11 Dec 1986	   	Amdahl.com
50.   	11 Dec 1986	   	CCUR.com
50.   	11 Dec 1986	   	CI.com
50.   	11 Dec 1986	   	Convergent.com
50.   	11 Dec 1986	   	DG.com
50.   	11 Dec 1986	   	Peregrine.com
50.   	11 Dec 1986	   	Quad.com
50.   	11 Dec 1986	   	SQ.com
50.   	11 Dec 1986	   	Tandy.com
50.   	11 Dec 1986	   	TTI.com
50.   	11 Dec 1986	   	Unisys.com
61.   	19 Jan 1987	   	CGI.com
61.   	19 Jan 1987	   	CTS.com
61.   	19 Jan 1987	   	SPDCC.com
64.   	19 Feb 1987	   	Apple.com
65.   	04 Mar 1987	   	NMA.com
65.   	04 Mar 1987	   	Prime.com
67.   	04 Apr 1987	   	Philips.com
68.   	23 Apr 1987	   	Datacube.com
68.   	23 Apr 1987	   	Kai.com
68.   	23 Apr 1987	   	TIC.com
68.   	23 Apr 1987	   	Vine.com
72.   	30 Apr 1987	   	NCR.com
73.   	14 May 1987	   	Cisco.com
73.   	14 May 1987	   	RDL.com
75.   	20 May 1987	   	SLB.com
76.   	27 May 1987	   	ParcPlace.com
76.   	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
81.   	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
86.   	03 Sep 1987	   	DSC.com
86.   	03 Sep 1987	   	SCO.com
89.   	22 Sep 1987	   	Gene.com
89.   	22 Sep 1987	   	KCCS.com
89.   	22 Sep 1987	   	Spectra.com
89.   	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

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**Geek** · 2nd February 2010, 08:21 PM

Man oh man - How I remember the hours spent typing page after page of machine code (with a checksum at the end of each line) for some simple but exhilarating game with up to eight sprites and all on my trusted and much-loved Commodore 64. Those were the days of true computing, sweat and all!!

**TheVoid** · 7th July 2010, 10:45 PM

nice list, thanks

ahh i remember when i first started with the C64, too

**gjensen** · 11th May 2011, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by Mie1

Oh, before I forget: NO Windows then. The first Operating System I used happened to be DOS (3.2, I think), so it was all keyboard input ... the mouse came later.

Hm, must have been PC-DOS 3.2 then, as that was released in December 1985. MS-DOS came in January 1986. I still remember going through endless troubles with the harddisk, as it practically died a most mysterious but pretty regular death after a year or so. Imagine this "failure rate" with modern multi-Terrabyte drives ;-) I think we could witness a sky full of flying laptops - thrown out of windows basically every 2-3 minutes XD

At that stage in life, permanent companions on my PC were WordStar, dBase III, SideKick and Turbo Pascal was added to that list just a year later (still owner of the manual for the 3.01A version - in surprisingly good condition, even after nearly 25 years and having been used on a daily basis for more than 4 years before I replaced it with Turbo Pascal 6.0 in 1990).

Golden times indeed - what a great fun we had with the PC's then. And those totally bewildered looks of other users, who just could not understand at all, why we were enduring all those hardships (parity errors on memory modules, harddisk failures, unreadable floppy disks, and the works) with a smile on our faces, ready to jump under the hood of the next PC to figure out what went wrong there...

Just to think of it, that even the most basic memory stick today (hard to find anything below 4GB) can hold more than 200 times the amount of data than the largest available harddrives at that time - and we actually thought that 20 MB would be "more than enough for everything" ;-)