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The entitlement that people have never ceases to amaze me. I suppose he also wants to come to the US and make the same claim on the land and lots I have been acquiring for two decades. We pay the renewal for the domains and the taxes for the lots.
Can't help that you recently decided you want to build something. Go build it on a .ws or a domain that is available
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The very first .com ever registered was Symbolics.соm in 1985. Four decades later it's still online, now owned by domain collector Aron Meystedt, @FirstDomain.
There's a specific feeling to registering your own first domain. A name, a blank page, and the sense that something was about to start.
What was your first domain, and is it still alive or long gone?
Aron Meystedt | ValidatorAI.com | Symbolics.com retweeted
In 1985, only 6 .com domains existed in the world.
The first was symbolics.com, registered March 15, 1985 by a Cambridge AI hardware company spun out of MIT's AI Lab.
Registration meant FTPing a plain-text template from SRI-NIC, filling it out and emailing it to [email protected]. A human reviewed it. Approval took days or weeks.
The other five that year were: bbn.com, think.com, mcc.com, dec.com and northrop.com.
Symbolics, Inc. went bankrupt in 1996, they held onto the domain.
In 2009, @FirstDomain (Aron Meystedt) acquired it. Not to flip, not to park, but to preserve it as a digital museum.
41 years later, symbolics.com is still resolving. The first commercial domain on the internet still points somewhere.
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Domainers & a Registrar Walk into a Casino: A Domain Industry AMA
Aron Meystedt (owner of the first .com ever registered) and Andriy Khvatkovych (CEO & Co-Founder, @NicNames) go open floor. Moderated by Todd Ryan.
Wednesday, April 29 | Resorts World Las Vegas
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Looks like Andrew Miller oversaw a deal for Simulation.com.
The domain name had been owned by @360.
Random Sunday Thoughts #201: Wow! What a week
Shoutouts to@domainnames @domainnamecom @360
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The man who owns the first domain ever registered 🌐
We sat down with Aron Meystedt, the owner of symbolics.com, the first .com in history, to talk about digital real estate, domain liquidity & what happens when Web3 gives domains real financial rails.
Read on 👇
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All the photos from #CloudFest 2025 are now live! 📸
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Today, 40 years ago on March 15, 1985, the first dot com domain name was registered.
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com, registered on by Symbolics Inc., a computer systems firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
So far 664 Million domain names registered.
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Happy 40th Birthday (Symbolics.com) Reg 15 March 1985 NewsRecyclers.com by Australian Gene Downs The Generic Strategist > Symbolics.com | The first and oldest registered .com on the Internet. Domain Quality Scores and Rankings > symbolics.com/
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On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the .com domain name, what do you think? What do you think about the domain name industry in the next 10 years? Please leave a message in the comment area, and you are also welcome to like or forward this post, thank you!
According to a report released by ResearchAndMarkets, the total number of global domain name registrations is expected to reach 464.8 million by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate of 3.2%. Among them, the number of generic top-level domain names is expected to reach 297.1 million, with a compound annual growth rate of 3.1%.
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March 15, 1985: World's first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com (March 15, 1985). The domain is still active, serving as a historic marker on the internet.
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The fact that Symbolics.com is still active feels like touching the roots of the internet
Aron Meystedt | ValidatorAI.com | Symbolics.com retweeted
40 years ago today, the first .com domain name was registered.
There are now nearly 2 billion websites.
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Happy 40th birthday, Symbolics.com 🤟
You survived the federal worker layoffs through the Reagan, Bush, Clinton, GW Bush, Obama, Trump 45, and Biden administrations. Not so sure about Trump 47.
@FirstDomain
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The first domain name - Symbolics.com was registered on March 15, 1985. Since then, over 359.8 million domain names have been registered – including Voice.com, which was sold for a record-breaking 30 million in 2019.
Aron Meystedt | ValidatorAI.com | Symbolics.com retweeted
On this day in 1985, the very first .COM domain, symbolics.com, was registered.
ALT Symbolics logo.
Aron Meystedt | ValidatorAI.com | Symbolics.com retweeted
What did people even do before the internet?
Today marks 40 years since the first-ever domain name, symbolics.com, was registered. The world wide web wasn't even around when it was registered - it only came a few years later!
#godaddydomains #SmallBusiness
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🎂 Forty years ago, on March 15, 1985, a computer manufacturer from Massachusetts registered the first-ever dot-com domain: symbolics.com.
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Happy 40th birthday today to symbolics.com! 🎂Congratulations to @FirstDomain! 🎉Read more... namepros.com/blog/domain-nam…