20 First Domain Name Registered Update

Public registration was revealed on usenet on feb 24 1986.

First domain name registered. As news breaks that the oldest domain name is sold here is a list of the first 20 names to be registered according to the forrester. Created in january of the same year but the company decided not to register it. Today this domain lives on the oldest of over 350 million registered domains in existence.

According to the site it was registered 26 years ago on march 15 1985. The symbolics domain name was actually not the first domain name. Registered on march 15 1985.

Symbolics computer corporation a now defunct computer manufacturer. Was best known for designing and manufacturing a line of lisp machines computers optimized to run the lisp programming. By retro computing society of rhode island own work cc by sa 3 0 the company symbolics inc.

It was registered march 15 1985 to symbolics inc a computer systems company in cambridge mass. Was the first domain name ever registered online. A domain name is how you find the content you are looking for online.

Originally symbolics was a massachusetts based computer manufacturer that s been defunct for some time now. Until late february 1986 domain registration was limited to organizations with access to arpa.