[TUHS] Happy birthday, symbolics.com!

[Warner Losh]

Sorry to reply to myself....

But for a few years after we started registering names, requests went to
hostmaster at sri-nic.arpa. Around 1987 or so, a big email came out that said
you had to go through hostmaster at nic.ddn.mil to get them, and you needed to
fill out an email form that was programmatically parsed. I recall from the
day that getting domains registers was a hit-or-miss sort of affair, since
the parser was super picky. I know a friend missed out on grue.com because
his first attempt had some misplaced word and by the time he heard back and
redid it, someone else had jumped in line in front of him...

Warner

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> 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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