[HN Gopher] 35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics....
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       35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.com was
       registered
        
       Author : macittuna
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2020-03-15 20:53 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (dofo.com)
        
       | macittuna wrote:
       | First-ever domain was registered in 1985. Many others were kept
       | being registered since then. But what are the first used domains
       | up to these days?
       | 
       | 100 Oldest Domain Names & Their Current Status:
       | https://dofo.com/blog/oldest-domain-names/
        
         | ezequiel-garzon wrote:
         | Thank you, interesting link. I had for a long time thought
         | symbolics.com was the first "modern style" domain to have been
         | registered, but it looks like it was actually nordu.net, even
         | if the intention was to use it for a root server.
        
       | greenyoda wrote:
       | RFC 882, which defined domain-style addressing, was released in
       | 1983:
       | 
       | https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc882
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       | There was domain-style addressing that predated domains like
       | ".com" and ".edu". The original top-level domains were ".arpa"
       | (for ARPANET) and ".mil" (for MILNET).
       | 
       | Symbolics was "symbolics.arpa" before it was "symbolics.com".
        
         | adrianmonk wrote:
         | So instead of "the first domain name was registered", maybe it
         | would be more accurate to say "the first registration of a
         | domain name with a registry took place"?
        
       | sonofgod wrote:
       | Hope someone's remembered to renew it. :P
        
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