[HN Gopher] 35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (dofo.com) (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 | | 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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-03-15 23:00 UTC)