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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Apple Iphones: 8,000 Iphones Registered on First Night

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After triumphantly marching towards success by offering legendary iPod, the Apple’s iPhone is also creating records by huge sales record of 8,000 iPhones registered on first night of its release in the UK market. As per the official figures the iPhone, O2 reported a sale of some 8,000 such handsets only at the first night of sales.

In Germany too the whole buzz in the market about its record-breaking sales of 10,000 such handsets on the first day of this legendary phone on German ground. In comparison to O2, it is a bit less, still O2 describes its first day sales as “tens of thousands” of iPhones were sold in the UK during the end of the week. However, Apple iPhone created waves of sensation among the mobile users. In trying to enhance sales O2 also employed some remarkable policies by circulating “Getting started” leaflets to the huge crowd waiting eagerly outside their stores to purchase an iPhone on the first day of launch. Even fliers of the shops informed them by repeating “if you do not enter into and remain in an airtime agreement with O2 on one of our tariffs for iPhone, you will not be able to use the phone functionality of your phone”.

Anyway despite the high price tag along with which the much hyped Apple iPhone came, people were very keen enough to buy a revolutionary gadget like the Apple iPhone which is a multitasking device—a camera, music player and a high speed Internet browser all-in-one. Apple’s iPhone is also enhanced with latest technologies iTunes and much more.

As the first day scenario reveals the main issue on the Apple phone’s UK release is the high price it involved with the phone. As per reports available most people peeped in to the stores only to suppress their curiosity and have a look of this much-talked gadget. Some even tried the Apple iPhone, but did not buy one—may be because of its expensiveness– in Britain which amounts to 270 pounds with an 18 months contract.

As per reports of a close associate of O2 the company over 8,000 iPhone activations at the close of business on Friday, which is much higher than the company’s expectations which was only 3,000 activations.

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Google May Have Registered “安致” as Android’s Chinese Trademarks

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Sina science and technology news, Beijing time January 1st, searching through the state administration of industry and commerce web pages, the public will find that Google has registered a Chinese trademark as “??”, the industry conjecture the trademark may be the Chinese trademark of Android.

Click the SAIC official website, and go into the brand comprehensive search, people will see that the applicant is “Google Inc”, 21 is Android and 24 is “??”. “??” brand category has been set as computer hardware, software, mobile phones, Internet communications equipment, etc. In the page, people can also see other Google Chinese trademarks, including YOU TUBE, SKETCHUP, Google HOT LIST, etc.

Android system was launched by Google in November 5th, 2007 which based on Linux operating systems. The platform is made up of the operating system, middleware, user interface and application software, and it is the first open and complete mobile software designed for mobile.

At present, more than ten kinds of Samsung and MOTOROLA smart phones are using Google’s free Android software as their operating system; take the video game playing with mobile phones and the Internet. Besides, these phones come with functions of video game and surf online, and its competitors are Apple iPhone (mobile Internet) and other smart phones.

Earlier foreign media reports, Google said on Tuesday that Google will hold a news briefing about Android smartphones business on January 5th (Beijing time January 6th) 2010. Allegedly, at the press briefing, Google will launch its own-brand Google Android mobile phones Nexus One.

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