The 100 oldest registered dot com, org, net, edu domains

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The 100 oldest registered dot com, org, net, edu domains

Ever wonder what the oldest registered .com domain is on the Internet? After all, they haven’t always existed. In fact, it was just 24 years ago this month that the oldest domain was registered. It was www.symbolics.com, owned by the Symbolics, Inc. company who, back in the day, was a leading software development firm with software projects designed back in the 1980s which appear very much like modern software designs seen today. For example, they had developed a fully object-oriented operating system called Genera, which today still exists as Open Genera, for Alpha CPUs. Their domain was registered on March 15, 1985 — when the Internet was brand new.

Items in green denote current Top 500 ranking. According to Netcraft, there are currently over 216 million website names registered, with about 77 million sites being actively hosted. The rest are parked at their registrar (like GoDaddy).

Check out what www.apple.com looked like in 1997. And what www.intel.com looked like at the same time. Even www.sun.com from 1996 looks antiquated, and Sun Micrsosystems was one of the earliest companies to wholly embrace the web, even touting what has since become the idea of cloud computing back in the 1980s. It’s for real folks, the web has changed. It was a completely different place back then.

It’s interesting to note that when Apple launched its original integrated Macintosh computer in 1984, so named for a brand of Apple (McIntosh), the company did not yet have the www.apple.com domain. It would take another three years before they got that.

IBM Corporation, founded somewhere between the 1880s and 1924 depending on what even you actually consider to have been a foundational movement (most accept 1896), and the inventor of the original IBM PC computer with an Intel 8088 or 8086 16-bit CPU (limited to 1 MB of memory and 4.77 MHz clock) that had been on sale since the early 1980s, did not get its www.ibm.com domain until 1986, some 90+ years after first coming into existence.

It may be interesting to note that IBM’s earliest devices were mechanical tabulators using the Hollerith system for storing signed numbers on fixed-positional punched cards back when the company was called the Tabulating Machine Company (TMC building, 1893 picture). The tabulation equipment was developed by Herman Hollerith to improve efficiency in processing census data every 10 years. After being called TMC since 1896, in 1911 a company called Computing Tabulating Recording (CTR) was formed as a three-way merger of TMC, International Time Recording Company and Computing Scale Corporation. And on February 14, 1924, CTR officially changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). Their most advanced tabulating equipment was used during World War II to keep track of holocaust victims, as well as for other Nazi uses.

Many of the domain names appearing on this list have since been moved to other sites. As such, many of them are still in existence, albeit under new identities. The list above shows only those in the Top 1 Million List updated daily by www.alexa.com with the same name today.

www.intel.com comes in at 1018 today, while www.amd.com comes in at 2001. www.sun.com (Sun Microsystems) was the 12th domain registered, just after www.ibm.com, and it is currently in the Top 500 at #484. www.hp.com beats them all as the 9th domain registered, and it sits today at #191.

The tops today are www.adobe.com at #56 and www.apple.com at #66.

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The Oldest Dividend Paying Stocks in America – Part 2

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The Oldest Dividend Paying Stocks in America – Part 2

In Part 1 of this series we listed the oldest dividend paying stocks in the U.S. In this article we’ll try to sort out which ones have the best history of paying dividends, and, more importantly, which ones might be healthy enough to actually invest in. Here are the “Old Timer’s Club” members:

LORILLARD – 1760 – Consumer Goods

BANK OF NY ? 1784 – Bank



CIGNA – 1792 – Insurance



WASHINGTON TRUST – 1800 – Community Bank



DUPONT – 1802 – Industrial Diversified
 Chemicals

COLGATE-PALMOLIVE – 1806 – Consumer Goods



VALSPAR – 1806 – Industrial



JOHN WILEY & SONS – 1807 – Publishing



HARTFORD GROUP – 1810 – Insurance



CITIGROUP – 1812 – Bank



YORK WATER – 1816 – Utility



So, which of these companies has the safest dividend? This is a question with many answers.

As we noted in the 1st article, York Water, (YORW), holds the record for consecutive dividends, having paid 553 consecutive dividends during the 193 years since it was founded in 1816. Their record is certainly impressive and offers some safety. Here’s how they fare in their peers in the broad utility group:

Quick Ratio: .72 puts them in the top rung

Debt-to-Equity: Their 1.35 is the approximate median for this metric

Price-to-Book: At 2.4, their P/B is one of the highest in their group

Dividend Payout Ratio: 84%. Almost in the middle, but this figure ranges from 60 % to 236 % for this group.

Dividend Yield: 3.4% This is near the bottom for Utilities as a whole, as this broad group ranges from 3 % up to 8% +. However, looking at the narrower, water utility group shows a much narrower range, of 3 to 5%, with most companies being around 3%.

All told, YORW is a steady dividend payer that could add stability to your portfolio, particularly if the dividends are reinvested.

Dupont Nemours, (DD), has certainly had a wild ride in the past year, ranging from a high of .03 to .81. It’s currently at .60 and yields over 6.7%. Here’s a look at some other metrics:

Dividend Payout Ratio: 114%. Payout ratios this high are usually a warning signal, but, looking further, we see that DuPont’s EPS forecast for 2010 is .05, which, if correct, would bring their payout ratio back down to 80%, which is still higher than the bottom third of the diversified chemical group, but much better than the top third.

Quick Ratio: 1.26 is the 2nd highest in their peer group.

Current Ratio: 1.87 is near the middle of their group.

Dupont’s Price/Cash and Price/Book are currently both a bit pricey, so, you may want to either wait for a pullback, or, try selling puts to get a cheaper price.

October .50 puts, (DDVT), are currently bid at .25, which equaling a 20%-plus annualized yield, and a breakeven of .25.

Alternatively, you might try hedging your bet by buying shares and then selling .00 January 2010 calls, (DDAE), which currently show a .30 bid, which equals an 18% annualized yield.

In addition, you’d receive $.82/share in dividends during this period, as there are 2 ex-dividend dates before the call option expires.

Adding in this dividend payout brings this covered call trade’s “static” yield to 24.4% annualized, and gives you a .48 breakeven.

Since your basis is .60, and the call strike price is .00, you’ll have one other potential profit on this covered call: If the stock’s price rises to or past .30 at or near the Jan. expiration date, your shares will be assigned, (sold), at .00, the strike price, giving you an additional $.40/share in profit.

This potential assigned profit brings your total potential profit up to .52/share for this 6-month + trade, (over 27.5 % annualized).

In part 3 of this series, we’ll look at more of America’s oldest dividend paying stocks, and try to ferret out some more possible trades.

Disclaimer: This article is written for informational purposes only, and author will not be held responsible for omissions or errors, or for acts taken by third parties as a result of reading this article.

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