100 Oldest Domain Names
There are over 300 million registered domain names but what are the oldest names? Some people may bet on great domains like sex.com, stocks.com, mortgage.com or another commercial product but you would lose that bet. Domain names have actually been available for more than 30 years – yes, before you even knew what a computer looked like.
The first domain name, Symbolics.com, was registered in 1985 and most of the first 100 domains registered were brands like Xerox.com, HP.com, ATT.com, Adobe.com, Apple.com etc. A hyphenated domain name even made #20 on the list (Bell-ATL.com).
Many of the oldest domains are actually still bought and sold today – for example, Internet.com, Genius.com, Study.com, HongKong.com, and etc.
How Much Were Domains in 1985?
Be prepared to cry. Domain names were free until 1995. All it took was a phone call back then to secure what could be a multi-million dollar domain today. We know, they didn’t tell us this in college either.
RANK | DOMAIN NAME | CREATION DATE |
---|---|---|
1 | Symbolics.com | March 15, 1985 |
2 | BBN.com | April 24, 1985 |
3 | Think.com | May 24, 1985 |
4 | MCC.com | July 11, 1985 |
5 | DEC.com | September 30, 1985 |
6 | Northrop.com | November 7, 1985 |
7 | Xerox.com | January 9, 1986 |
8 | SRI.com | January 17, 1986 |
9 | HP.com | March 3, 1986 |
10 | Bellcore.com | March 5, 1986 |
11 | IBM.com | March 19, 1986 |
12 | Sun.com | March 19, 1986 |
13 | Intel.com | March 25, 1986 |
14 | TI.com | March 25, 1986 |
15 | ATT.com | April 25, 1986 |
16 | GMR.com | May 8, 1986 |
17 | TEK.com | May 8, 1986 |
18 | FMC.com | July 10, 1986 |
19 | UB.com | July 10, 1986 |
20 | Bell-ATL.com | August 5, 1986 |
21 | GE.com | August 5, 1986 |
22 | Grebyn.com | August 5, 1986 |
23 | ISC.com | August 5, 1986 |
24 | NSC.com | August 5, 1986 |
25 | Stargate.com | August 5, 1986 |
26 | Boeing.com | September 2, 1986 |
27 | ITCorp.com | September 18, 1986 |
28 | Siemens.com | September 29, 1986 |
29 | Pyramid.com | October 18, 1986 |
30 | AlphaCDC.com | October 27, 1986 |
31 | BDM.com | October 27, 1986 |
32 | Fluke.com | October 27, 1986 |
33 | Inmet.com | October 27, 1986 |
34 | Kesmai.com | October 27, 1986 |
35 | Mentor.com | October 27, 1986 |
36 | NEC.com | October 27, 1986 |
37 | Ray.com | October 27, 1986 |
38 | Rosemount.com | October 27, 1986 |
39 | Vortex.com | October 27, 1986 |
40 | Alcoa.com | November 5, 1986 |
41 | GTE.com | November 5, 1986 |
42 | Adobe.com | November 17, 1986 |
43 | AMD.com | November 17, 1986 |
44 | DAS.com | November 17, 1986 |
45 | Data IO.com | November 17, 1986 |
46 | Octopus.com | November 17, 1986 |
47 | Portal.com | November 17, 1986 |
48 | Teltone.com | November 17, 1986 |
49 | 3Com.com | December 11, 1986 |
50 | Amdahl.com | December 11, 1986 |
51 | CCUR.com | December 11, 1986 |
52 | CI.com | December 11, 1986 |
53 | Convergent.com | December 11, 1986 |
54 | DG.com | December 11, 1986 |
55 | Peregrine.com | December 11, 1986 |
56 | Quad.com | December 11, 1986 |
57 | SQ.com | December 11, 1986 |
58 | Tandy.com | December 11, 1986 |
59 | TTI.com | December 11, 1986 |
60 | Unisys.com | December 11, 1986 |
61 | CGI.com | January 19, 1987 |
62 | CTS.com | January 19, 1987 |
63 | SPDCC.com | January 19, 1987 |
64 | Apple.com | February 19, 1987 |
65 | NMA.com | March 4, 1987 |
66 | Prime.com | March 4, 1987 |
67 | Philips.com | April 4, 1987 |
68 | Datacube.com | April 23, 1987 |
69 | Kai.com | April 23, 1987 |
70 | TIC.com | April 23, 1987 |
71 | Vine.com | April 23, 1987 |
72 | NCR.com | April 30, 1987 |
73 | Cisco.com | May 14, 1987 |
74 | RDL.com | May 14, 1987 |
75 | SLB.com | May 20, 1987 |
76 | ParcPlace.com | May 27, 1987 |
77 | UTC.com | May 27, 1987 |
78 | IDE.com | June 26, 1987 |
79 | TRW.com | July 9, 1987 |
80 | Unipress.com | July 13, 1987 |
81 | Dupont.com | July 27, 1987 |
82 | Lockheed.com | July 27, 1987 |
83 | Rosetta.com | July 28, 1987 |
84 | Toad.com | August 18, 1987 |
85 | Quick.com | August 31, 1987 |
86 | Allied.com | September 3, 1987 |
87 | DSC.com | September 3, 1987 |
88 | SCO.com | September 3, 1987 |
89 | Gene.com | September 22, 1987 |
90 | KCCS.com | September 22, 1987 |
91 | Spectra.com | September 22, 1987 |
92 | WLK.com | September 22, 1987 |
93 | Mentat.com | September 30, 1987 |
94 | WYSE.com | October 14, 1987 |
95 | CFG.com | November 2, 1987 |
96 | Marble.com | November 9, 1987 |
97 | Cayman.com | November 16, 1987 |
98 | Entity.com | November 16, 1987 |
99 | KSR.com | November 24, 1987 |
100 | NynexST.com | November 30, 1987 |