interesting - thanks! this makes sense in hindsight :)According to wikipoedia, .com was setup in January of 1985 and was administered by the US Department of Defense. Although they contracted SRI International, which in turn created DDN-NIC (SRI-NIC), which was found at nic.ddn.mil.
Assuming they registered it under SRI-NIC.
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