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Tuesday, 5th April 2011, 17:15:22
100 oldest .com domain name registrations list released
The explosion of domain registrations has been placed into context after a list revealing the 100 oldest registered .com domain names was unveiled.
Symbolics.com is listed by iwhois.com as the first registered dot com domain name after being created on March 15th 1985, with Bbn.com applied for a month later.
Think.com, Xerox.com and Sun.com are among those registered in the year after, with the 100th address applied for on November 30th 1987.
However, with only 54 domain names registed in 1986 alone, the rise in importance of people having a domain name can be seen.
Last month, Australia's AusRegistry revealed that around two million .au addresses have now been registered, with 85.99 per cent of them having .com.au suffixes.
Glenn Gore, chief technology officer at Melbourne IT, told the Sydney Morning Herald at the time that it is a part of the identity.
He said: "If it ends in .com.au, you know that it was not some fly-by-night operation. There has to be a real business behind it."
Posted by Henry Thomas
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