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Domain names turn 25

It’s tough being in your twenties. You may still be young enough to party like a rock star, but no one yet respects you. (Try pulling up your pants and getting a hair cut. Maybe that will help.) Today domain names turned 25 years old. The first .com domain name, “Symbolics.com,” was registered by a Massachusetts computer company on March 15, 1985.

The first ten domains:

• Symbolics.com – March 15, 1985
• BBN.com – April 24, 1985
• Think.com – May 24, 1985
• MCC.com – July 11, 1985
• DEC.com – Sept. 30, 1985
• Northrop.com – Nov. 7, 1985
• Serox.com – Jan. 9, 1986
• SRI.com – Jan. 17, 1986
• HP.com – March 3, 1986
• Bellcore.com – March 5, 1986

“Yahoo.com”—you’ve heard of them—was registered Jan. 18, 1995. For more, read Benny Evangelista’s piece on SFGate.com.

— The Team

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