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What's the oldest domain name you know of?
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23-08-2011, 01:04 PM
What's the oldest domain name you know of?

So I was whois'ing a clients website to see if they were hosted with us and saw that It was registered in 2006, so I googles them and see a similar but shorter version of their domain and I'm thinking "Why didn't they get that one.", well the answer is obvious, this other one was registered in 1997!

So I then started whois'ing domains that I thought would be old and got to 1992 without cheating.

What's the oldest domain name you know of?
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23-08-2011, 07:00 PM
I've have thought of ibm.com as the oldest
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23-08-2011, 09:03 PM
(23-08-2011, 01:04 PM)Mark Wrote: without cheating.

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24-08-2011, 05:55 PM
I still stand by it. The oldest one I could think of WITHOUT CHEATING was ibm.com, but wasn't sure how far I was off the oldest ever, hence the post
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31-08-2011, 02:10 PM
GTE.com I remember, being my dad worked for them. Verizon bought them out in the 90's but I am pretty sure they had a domain back in the mid 80s
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31-08-2011, 11:50 PM
(31-08-2011, 02:10 PM)Pack3t SynAck3r Wrote: GTE.com I remember, being my dad worked for them. Verizon bought them out in the 90's but I am pretty sure they had a domain back in the mid 80s

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