Doug Ross @ Journal

My kingdom for a time machine!

Let’s go back exactly 17 years - to November 30th 1987. You want to register a domain name. To date, only 99 .com domains have ever been registered. Yours will be the 100th. So, what do you get? Music.com? It’s available! Games.com? Available! Loans.com? Drugs.com? Cars.com? All unregistered! Take your pick. Think carefully now… which will you choose? Decision made; it’s got to be… nynexst.com... The 100 Oldest Currently Registered .COM Domains Created Date Domain Name ----------- ----------- 03/15/1985 SYMBOLICS.COM 04/24/1985 BBN.COM 05/24/1985 THINK.COM 07/11/1985 MCC.COM 09/30/1985 DEC.COM 11/07/1985 NORTHROP.COM 01/09/1986 XEROX.COM 01/17/1986 SRI.COM 03/03/1986 HP.COM 03/05/1986 BELLCORE.COM 03/19/1986 IBM.COM 03/19/1986 SUN.COM 03/25/1986 INTEL.COM 03/25/1986 TI.COM 04/25/1986 ATT.COM 05/08/1986 GMR.COM 05/08/1986 TEK.COM 07/10/1986 FMC.COM 07/10/1986 UB.COM 08/05/1986 BELL-ATL.COM 08/05/1986 GE.COM 08/05/1986 GREBYN.COM 08/05/1986 ISC.COM 08/05/1986 NSC.COM 08/05/1986 STARGATE.COM 09/02/1986 BOEING.COM 09/18/1986 ITCORP.COM 09/29/1986 SIEMENS.COM 10/18/1986 PYRAMID.COM 10/27/1986 ALPHACDC.COM 10/27/1986 BDM.COM 10/27/1986 FLUKE.COM 10/27/1986 INMET.COM 10/27/1986 KESMAI.COM 10/27/1986 MENTOR.COM 10/27/1986 NEC.COM 10/27/1986 RAY.COM 10/27/1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM 10/27/1986 VORTEX.COM 11/05/1986 ALCOA.COM 11/05/1986 GTE.COM 11/17/1986 ADOBE.COM 11/17/1986 AMD.COM 11/17/1986 DAS.COM 11/17/1986 DATA-IO.COM 11/17/1986 OCTOPUS.COM 11/17/1986 PORTAL.COM 11/17/1986 TELTONE.COM 12/11/1986 3COM.COM 12/11/1986 AMDAHL.COM 12/11/1986 CCUR.COM 12/11/1986 CI.COM 12/11/1986 CONVERGENT.COM 12/11/1986 DG.COM 12/11/1986 PEREGRINE.COM 12/11/1986 QUAD.COM 12/11/1986 SQ.COM 12/11/1986 TANDY.COM 12/11/1986 TTI.COM 12/11/1986 UNISYS.COM 01/19/1987 CGI.COM 01/19/1987 CTS.COM 01/19/1987 SPDCC.COM 02/19/1987 APPLE.COM 03/04/1987 NMA.COM 03/04/1987 PRIME.COM 04/04/1987 PHILIPS.COM 04/23/1987 DATACUBE.COM 04/23/1987 KAI.COM 04/23/1987 TIC.COM 04/23/1987 VINE.COM 04/30/1987 NCR.COM 05/14/1987 CISCO.COM 05/14/1987 RDL.COM 05/20/1987 SLB.COM 05/27/1987 PARCPLACE.COM 05/27/1987 UTC.COM 06/26/1987 IDE.COM 07/09/1987 TRW.COM 07/13/1987 UNIPRESS.COM 07/27/1987 DUPONT.COM 07/27/1987 LOCKHEED.COM 07/28/1987 ROSETTA.COM 08/18/1987 TOAD.COM 08/31/1987 QUICK.COM 09/03/1987 ALLIED.COM 09/03/1987 DSC.COM 09/03/1987 SCO.COM 09/22/1987 GENE.COM 09/22/1987 KCCS.COM 09/22/1987 SPECTRA.COM 09/22/1987 WLK.COM 09/30/1987 MENTAT.COM 10/14/1987 WYSE.COM 11/02/1987 CFG.COM 11/09/1987 MARBLE.COM 11/16/1987 CAYMAN.COM 11/16/1987 ENTITY.COM 11/24/1987 KSR.COM 11/30/1987 NYNEXST.COM

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