The internets oldest domain name

Published on the 4th of February, 2008

Now imagine you were a computer geek transported back to 1985. There are no domains registered and you had the chance to register the first ever domain name. what would it be?

I StumbledUpon a list of the first 1 hundred domain names and I had to have a laugh, the first domain ever registered was not a 1 letter .com, not a 2 letter .com, not a 3 letter .com, not a 4,5,6,7 or 8 letter .com, it was a 9 letter word. Symbolics.com was the first ever domain. Now I have been using the internet for just under 15 years and only just found this out, so to me it is new and cool and one reason i like stumbleupon.

Interestingly it took 1 year for the first 10 domains to be registered, a year later another 50 had been registered and now 23 years latter we have pushed the limits to the point of driving anybody trying to find a new domain nuts!.