Happy 25th Birthday .com
25 years ago, the 15th March 1985, the first .com domain was registered: symbolics.com. The same year, five other companies signed up for a .com domain name: BBN.com, Think.com, MCC.com and DEC.com.
.com Today
Today, .com is an integral part of a technology boom that reshaped the way people work, live, play and connect with family and friends. Much to the amazement of its creators. “I don’t recall anybody ever thinking we were creating an organizational structure to encompass hundreds of millions of entities covering the entire planet in support of all human activities,” said David H. Crocker, who wrote the RFC 733-the first standard for Internet email. “And it certainly wasn’t supposed to last for 30+ years, even as an experiment. It just happened to turn out that way.”
