Oldest domain sold

Investment company XF.com bought the oldest domain on the Internet.

The symbolics.com domain was registered on March 15, 1985, by the American company Symbolics , which wanted to show the public their personal computers optimized for executing commands in the LISP language. These were the first computers, which were called "workstations" ("workstation").

For a quarter century, a domain has never (!) Changed its owner. Just now. The amount of the transaction is unknown, but its purpose is understandable. After all, this is just the perfect investment. The first domain on the Internet will forever remain the first, and its value only grows every year, like the value of any historical exhibit. People will always go there, and the PageRank of the site is almost impossible to destroy, because the domain has already been included in the annals of history.

Today, the World Wide Web has more than 180 million registered domains, and every day their number grows by several thousand. Here is a list of the 100 oldest domains , partially already published on Habré.

1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM
5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM
6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM
7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM
8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM
9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM
10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM
11. 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM
12. 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
13. 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
14. 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
16. 08-May-1986 GMR.COM
17. 08-May-1986 TEK.COM
18. 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM
19. 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM
20. 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM
21. 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM
22. 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM
23. 05-Aug-1986 ISC .COM
24. 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM
25. 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM