[TUHS] Happy birthday, symbolics.com!

[Warner Losh]

nic.ddn.mil post-dated symbolics.com registering by a couple of years. They
had a complicated form to fill out to get a domain name after the less
formal system became too burdensome to scale.

Warner

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Angus Robinson <angus at fairhaven.za.net>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 2:18 PM Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 03/14/2018 14:14, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> > The first Internet domain, symbolics.com, was registered in 1985 at
>> > 0500Z ("Zulu" time, i.e. UTC).
>> >
>>
>> This was well before my time, so pardon my ignorance here, but who was
>> the registrar that they used to register this domain?
>>
>> thanks!
>> -pete
>>
>>
>> --
>> Pete Wright
>> pete at nomadlogic.org
>> @nomadlogicLA
>>
>>
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