TRIVIA: First Domain Name Ever Created??
Ron Bennett
first domain name ever created. Not sure if I've found it yet, but here what I
did find so far:
ARPA created Jan-1-1985
BBN.COM, BERKELEY.EDU, & UCLA.EDU all created Apr-24-1985
This one I find amazing in regard to the fast changing world of the net.
MSU.EDU domain record has not been modified since May-19-1987 (12 years!) and
still works fine.
There may be military domains that are older, but the mil nic doesn't give
creation dates for them.
Ron Bennett
Richard J. Sexton
And the first .COM domain happened when Brian Reid registered DEC.COM;
the whois database is not accurate. It shows that MITRE was first
but Brian has dated mail that shows the registration came before
MITRE's.
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC-DOM)
250 University Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301-1616
Domain Name: DEC.COM
Administrative Contact:
Saurus, Skip (SS21887) sau...@PA.DEC.COM
+1 650 688 1307
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC-NOC) n...@DIGITAL.COM
1 888 622 5742, +1 650 688 1396
Billing Contact:
Racz, John (JR895) ra...@PA.DEC.COM
415-617-3471
Record last updated on 05-Apr-99.
Record created on 30-Sep-85.
Database last updated on 18-Jun-99 08:12:13 EDT.
He actually receievd the delegation in February '85.
Brian left Dec about a year after Compaq bought it. I quote: "Compaq
didn't get enough money to buy Digital by being innovative". He is now
the lad director for Bell Labs (Lucent) new west coast R&D facility.
--
Richard Sexton ric...@mbz.org Bannockburn, Ontario, Canada
70, 72 280SE; 83 300SD http://www.mbz.org
Kevin Oberman
> And the first .COM domain happened when Brian Reid registered DEC.COM;
> the whois database is not accurate. It shows that MITRE was first
> but Brian has dated mail that shows the registration came before
> MITRE's.
Uh, no. MITRE was the first .org registrant. The mitre.com domain is
relatively new.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: obe...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
Richard J. Sexton
Kevin Oberman <obe...@es.net> wrote:
>ric...@ns1.vrx.net (Richard J. Sexton) writes:
>
>> And the first .COM domain happened when Brian Reid registered DEC.COM;
>> the whois database is not accurate. It shows that MITRE was first
>> but Brian has dated mail that shows the registration came before
>> MITRE's.
>
>Uh, no. MITRE was the first .org registrant. The mitre.com domain is
>relatively new.
True. This question was first articulated, that I'm aware, at the
July 97 ITAA conference in Washington DC. The wording of the
quesiton was "what was the first commercial registration"
and mitre.org is not non-commercial.
At any rate, dec.com is still the first in both categories.
--
Richard J. Sexton
Ron Bennett <rb1...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
<>Happen to run across an article the other day and it said that SYMBOLICS.COM
<>was the first domain name created. Not sure, but it has an even earlier
<>creation date than any other domain in .COM, .NET, & .ORG that I could find.
<>
<>Registrant:
<>Symbolics Technology, Inc (SYMBOLICS-DOM)
<> 38 Washington Rd.
<> Princeton Junction, NJ 08550
<> USA
<>
<> Domain Name: SYMBOLICS.COM
<>
<> Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
<> Gander, Steve [Dir. Technology Services] (SG52) gan...@PRINCAP.COM
<> (609) 275-7100 ext. 239 (FAX) (609) 275-9191
<>
<> Record last updated on 27-Oct-96.
<> Record created on 15-Mar-85.
<> Database last updated on 21-Jun-99 08:14:30 EDT.
<>
<> Domain servers in listed order:
<>
<> RIVERSIDE.SYMBOLICS.COM 128.81.41.21
<> SEC1.DNS.PSI.NET 38.8.92.2
<> SEC2.DNS.PSI.NET 38.8.93.2
To: "Richard J. Sexton" <ric...@vrx.net <>
Subject: Re: digital
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 97 13:21:11 -0700
From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac <>
X-Mts: smtp
We actually registered before Symbolics, but at the time the NIC did
not keep accurate records. I have several piece of mail dated February
and March 1985 that are postmarked dec.com. The "Record created on"
entries were not put into the NIC database until about 1994.
--
Ron Bennett
was the first domain name created. Not sure, but it has an even earlier
creation date than any other domain in .COM, .NET, & .ORG that I could find.
Registrant:
Symbolics Technology, Inc (SYMBOLICS-DOM)
38 Washington Rd.
Princeton Junction, NJ 08550
USA
Domain Name: SYMBOLICS.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Gander, Steve [Dir. Technology Services] (SG52) gan...@PRINCAP.COM
(609) 275-7100 ext. 239 (FAX) (609) 275-9191
Record last updated on 27-Oct-96.
Record created on 15-Mar-85.
Database last updated on 21-Jun-99 08:14:30 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
RIVERSIDE.SYMBOLICS.COM 128.81.41.21
SEC1.DNS.PSI.NET 38.8.92.2
SEC2.DNS.PSI.NET 38.8.93.2
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