Les Jones: Oldest .COM Domain Names

December 14, 2004

Tech > Oldest .COM Domain Names

The 100 Oldest Currently Registered .COM Domains. Via Michael Silence.

So domain names used to be free for the asking. I remember when Network Solutions started charging $35. For a while there was a domain gold rush.

Once I realized what was happening around '96 I decided to fire up whois and register some domains. But what? I tried the obvious names that occur to most people - sex.com, lesbians.com, etc. - but they were all taken.

Except one - blowjob.com. Problem is, I was registering domains through my employer, and I didn't think registering blowjob.com would be too cool with management. If I knew then what I know now I would have looked up a domain host and registered with them. That little mistake probably cost me $50,000 or so. Ah, well. I registered backpages.com for a project I never started, and later sold it, and I did well operating and then selling 56K.COM, so I've got no complaints.

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Did you ever get anything for misspelledchocolate.com (whatever it was)?

BTW, I see that you no longer can buy an "internet chocky".

Posted by: Steve K. at December 13, 2004

With regards to the Internet, I rarely miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. I had several good domain names registered back in 1995-1997 when I was running a small ISP. I bet surplussolutions.com, greatbeers.com and pilotinfo.com were valuable to the people who owned them after me. Those were all for clients who abandoned their projects. Perhaps out of misplaced morality I didn't feel like I could camp them as my own. In retrospect since the clients had abandoned the names, accounts and projects, I suppose I could have declared imminent domain. ;-)

Posted by: Chris Range at December 14, 2004

I never did anything with chocalate.com, and eventually let it lapse. A domain collector has it now, but he hasn't done anything with it, either.

Meanwhile, the people who bought 56K.COM in 2003 still haven't updated the front page.

Posted by: Les Jones at December 14, 2004

Meanwhile, the people who bought 56K.COM in 2003 still haven't updated the front page.

Considering what they paid for it, that's really lame.

Posted by: steve K. at December 14, 2004

I have a friend who owns dozens of domains - - I just never understood why someone would do that - - but now you say $50,000 and well I get it now ;)

Posted by: Uptown Girl at December 14, 2004

What I don't understand is how could there have been domain names available in 1985 when the World Wide Web wasn't even INVENTED until 1989 and wasn't even IMPLEMENTED until 1990? In 1985, there were no web browsers --and HTML hadn't even been invented yet.

So if you had a domain name in 1985...what the heck could you do with it and how could anyone access your "site"?

Source:
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventedweb.html

Posted by: Jordan at January 03, 2005

The World Wide Web is just one service on the Internet. I was on the Internet in the late '80s using email, FTP, Gopher, and Usenet.

Funny thing: when the Web first came along, I thought it was the most pointless thing on Earth. In the early days there was almost no content. (The original version of Yahoo was done manually by two grad students at Stanford, and encompassed pretty much everything on the Web at the time.) Plus, unlike Usenet there was no way to talk back to a Web page.

Obviously, I came around to the idea of the Web at some point.

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