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First Dot-com Celebrates 25th Birthday

Exactly 25 years ago, on March 15 1985, computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc registered the first .com web domain ever: symbolics.com. By today’s design standards, and considering how web sites looked back in the late eighties and early nineties, it’s quite decent, although a bit short on content.

However, its content and even the (now defunct) company that registered it are far less important than the boom it ignited: in 1997, one million .com web domains were registered, and in 2000 the dot-com bubble peaked, resulting in an inevitable meltdown.


And while the dot-com crash proved that a well chosen name isn’t enough for a successful company, dot-coms still play a very important part of our online lives. Despite many other top-level domains available, .com is still the most coveted TLD – the one that many people still associate with the world wide web in general. Right now, about 668,000 dot-com sites are registered every month; quite a jump from the six web domains registered in 1985, don’t you think?

source : http://mashable.com/2010/03/15/first-dot-com-25th-birthday/

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