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The primary registered area title ever was Symbolics.com, by Cambridge, Massachusetts laptop firm Symbolics Inc. Along with being the oldest area title, it is also the longest working and you may nonetheless go to it right now, although it is now not below operation by its authentic house owners, who bought the area in 2009 after 25 years of possession.
As we speak Symbolics.com is owned by a small investor group in Irvine, CA, which purchased the area for an undisclosed quantity, presumably as a way of selling its providers, although there’s a actually a cool think about proudly owning the online’s first area title.
Symbolics Inc. was a derivative from the MIT AI Lab, who engineered and manufactured a line of Lisp machines (designed to run software program coded with the Lisp programming language), which have been the primary commercially out there general-purpose workstations.
The second area title to be registered was bbn.com (BBN Applied sciences) adopted by assume.com (Considering Machines) in April and Could of 1985. Different extra recognizable names on the time adopted, the likes of DEC (Digital Tools Company), which was purchased by Compaq/HP in a while, registered dec.com in September 1985. Xerox registered xerox.com in January 1986, and have become the seventh area title. HP, IBM, Solar and Intel all registered their domains in March 1986.
* The one domains that existed earlier than belonged to the general public sector and have been restricted to organizations with entry to the U.S. Division of Protection’s Superior Analysis Initiatives Company (ARPA).