Dot Com Turns 25

The first ever internet address ending in .com was registered 25 years ago today.

symbolics.com was registered on March 15 1985 by Massachusetts-based company Symbolics, a now-defunct computer manufacturer. By the end of 1985, there were a total of six .com web addresses.

The .com domain is the responsibility of Verisign, as is the .net domain, which was created at the same time as .com in January 1985.

These days, around tens of thousands of .com addresses are registered every day and more than 300 million of the .com sites created since March 1985 are no longer active.

Posted on March 15, 2010 | Filed Under Tech

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