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The 100 Oldest Websites On The Internet. Guess How Many Of Them Still Exist?

You couldn't register domain names until the mid-1980s. Here's a list of the oldest websites on the Internet and the oldest domain names registered.

March 12, 2009 by jayfrankwilson
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The Internet, in some form or another, has been around since the 1960s. But you couldn’t register domain names until the mid-1980s. Here’s a list of the oldest websites on the Internet and the oldest domain names registered.

The First Website On The Internet

Have you ever wondered what the first website on the internet was? The first registered domain on the Internet was symbolics.com. Symbolics, Inc. was a software development firm that obviously had someone on staff who kept their finger on the pulse of the events leading up to the birth of our modern Internet. The company Symbolics doesn’t exist anymore, but they will forever hold a place in history as the oldest domain name on the Internet.

The Oldest Domains On The Internet: .COM List

Symbolics was just one of many companies that secured domain names in the mid-1980s. Here’s a list of the 100 oldest domain names with a .com extension. Most of the companies aren’t around anymore, but some big names like Apple, GE, Cisco, and Adobe round out the top 100.

Order
Registered
Domains (.com) Date
Current
Traffic Rank
001 symbolics.com 03/15/85 288052
002 bbn.com 04/24/85 210628
003 think.com 05/24/85 n/a
004 mcc.com 07/11/85 423261
005 dec.com 09/30/85 n/a
006 northrop.com 11/07/85 n/a
007 xerox.com 01/09/86 9561
008 sri.com 01/17/86 100494
009 hp.com 03/03/86 191
010 bellcore.com 03/05/86 n/a
011 ibm.com 03/19/86 411
012 sun.com 03/19/86 484
013 intel.com 03/25/86 1018
014 ti.com 03/25/86 11757
015 att.com 04/25/86 336
016 gmr.com 05/08/86 n/a
017 tek.com 05/08/86 71044
018 fmc.com 07/10/86 688877
019 ub.com 07/10/86 n/a
020 bell-atl.com 08/05/86 n/a
021 ge.com 08/05/86 11629
022 grebyn.com 08/05/86 n/a
023 isc.com 08/05/86 n/a
024 nsc.com 08/05/86 n/a
025 stargate.com 08/05/86 183064
026 boeing.com 09/02/86 15882
027 itcorp.com 09/18/86 n/a
028 siemens.com 09/29/86 4802
029 pyramid.com 10/18/86 804133
030 alphacdc.com 10/27/86 n/a
031 bdm.com 10/27/86 503674
032 fluke.com 10/27/86 113826
033 inmet.com 10/27/86 n/a
034 kesmai.com 10/27/86 n/a
035 mentor.com 10/27/86 86074
036 nec.com 10/27/86 38938
037 ray.com 10/27/86 n/a
038 rosemount.com 10/27/86 n/a
039 vortex.com 10/27/86 502710
040 alcoa.com 11/05/86 104909
041 gte.com 11/05/86 n/a
042 adobe.com 11/17/86 56
043 amd.com 11/17/86 2001
044 das.com 11/17/86 n/a
045 data-io.com 11/17/86 n/a
046 octopus.com 11/17/86 775704
047 portal.com 11/17/86 n/a
048 teltone.com 11/17/86 n/a
049 3com.com 12/11/86 33649
050 amdahl.com 12/11/86 n/a
051 ccur.com 12/11/86 n/a
052 ci.com 12/11/86 196502
053 convergent.com 12/11/86 n/a
054 dg.com 12/11/86 n/a
055 peregrine.com 12/11/86 n/a
056 quad.com 12/11/86 n/a
057 sq.com 12/11/86 n/a
058 tandy.com 12/11/86 n/a
059 tti.com 12/11/86 n/a
060 unisys.com 12/11/86 23969
061 cgi.com 01/19/87 102209
062 cts.com 01/19/87 n/a
063 spdcc.com 01/19/87 n/a
064 apple.com 02/19/87 66
065 nma.com 03/04/87 n/a
066 prime.com 03/04/87 n/a
067 philips.com 04/04/87 2810
068 datacube.com 04/23/87 n/a
069 kai.com 04/23/87 n/a
070 tic.com 04/23/87 n/a
071 vine.com 04/23/87 n/a
072 ncr.com 04/30/87 46207
073 cisco.com 05/14/87 1329
074 rdl.com 05/14/87 n/a
075 slb.com 05/20/87 11557
076 parcplace.com 05/27/87 n/a
077 utc.com 05/27/87 135686
078 ide.com 06/26/87 n/a
079 trw.com 07/09/87 224218
080 unipress.com 07/13/87 n/a
081 dupont.com 07/27/87 24676
082 lockheed.com 07/27/87 n/a
083 rosetta.com 07/28/87 266032
084 toad.com 08/18/87 n/a
085 quick.com 08/31/87 n/a
086 allied.com 09/03/87 111176
087 dsc.com 09/03/87 351550
088 sco.com 09/03/87 76724
089 gene.com 09/22/87 108440
090 kccs.com 09/22/87 n/a
091 spectra.com 09/22/87 776373
092 wlk.com 09/22/87 n/a
093 mentat.com 09/30/87 n/a
094 wyse.com 10/14/87 313648
095 cfg.com 11/02/87 n/a
096 marble.com 11/09/87 113962
097 cayman.com 11/16/87 n/a
098 entity.com 11/16/87 n/a
099 ksr.com 11/24/87 n/a
100 nynexst.com 11/30/87 n/a

 

The Oldest Domains On The Internet: .ORG List

Oldest .ORG domains:
01 mitre.org 07/10/85 54846
02 src.org 03/25/86 n/a
03 super.org 07/10/86 n/a
05 aero.org 01/07/87 555226
06 mcnc.org 01/15/87 n/a
07 rand.org 04/02/87 61186
08 mn.org 04/04/87 n/a
09 rti.org 05/01/87 248138
10 n/a ?? ??
11 usenix.org 07/14/87 98286
12 n/a ?? ??
13 software.org 10/03/87 n/a

The Oldest Websites On The Internet: .EDU List

The Ivy League and large private and State schools were the first to register .edu domain names.

Oldest .EDU domains:
01 berkeley.edu 04/24/85 1580
02 purdue.edu 04/24/85 2776
03 ucla.edu 04/24/85 2629
04 mit.edu 05/23/85 1158
05 harvard.edu 06/27/85 1487
06 columbia.edu 07/05/85 2775
07 cornell.edu 07/15/85 2441
08 uiuc.edu 07/18/85 2651
09 udel.edu 07/24/85 11999
10 umd.edu 07/31/85 4062
11 utexas.edu 08/13/85 2179
12 usc.edu 08/20/85 4480
13 wisc.edu 09/30/85 2743
14 uci.edu 09/30/85 5377
15 stanford.edu 10/04/85 1276
16 umich.edu 10/07/85 2242
17 ucsd.edu 12/09/85 5036
18 arizona.edu 01/23/86 4151
19 ucsf.edu 02/21/86 14279
20 indiana.edu 03/03/86 4832
21 ucdavis.edu 03/19/86 6016
22 virginia.edu 03/19/86 3227
23 ufl.edu 03/25/86 3200
24 bu.edu 03/25/86 5945
25 gatech.edu 05/08/86 7101
26 duke.edu 06/02/86 4582
27 upenn.edu 06/02/86 2451
28 emory.edu 06/02/86 11327
29 unc.edu 06/17/86 4359
30 brown.edu 08/27/86 11759
31 unm.edu 08/27/86 11735
32 washington.edu 09/04/86 2336
33 nyu.edu 10/08/86 3214
34 umn.edu 01/21/87 2602
35 clemson.edu 02/19/87 17235
36 yale.edu 03/17/87 4504
37 princeton.edu 04/03/87 4286
38 uvm.edu 04/14/87 14612
39 ncsu.edu 04/16/87 4912
40 ucop.edu 04/30/87 45277
41 colostate.edu 05/27/87 7860
42 iastate.edu 06/22/87 7616
43 miami.edu 07/23/87 15798
44 uconn.edu 08/18/87 14286
45 fsu.edu 11/24/87 7400

The Oldest Domains On The Internet: .NET List

The oldest websites with .net domains aren’t very well known. Try them for yourself. None of them even exist anymore.

Oldest .NET domains:
01 nsf.net 11/05/86 n/a
02 uu.net 05/20/87 165772
03 sesqui.net 07/21/87 n/a

In The Early Days, Registering Premium Domain Names Was Easy

Old Retro Desktop Computer - Browsing The Oldest Websites On The Internet
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For the decade that followed, it was still very easy to secure premium domain names. For example, Weather.com wasn’t registered until 1994. Why? People didn’t understand the Internet yet.





As you can see in this infamous clip from the TODAY Show, in the mid-1990s, people still didn’t understand the difference between email and websites. And TV personalities, in general, struggled to explain the “World Wide Web” to their viewers.

Just imagine if you had a time machine and could travel back to the 1980s-1990s and secure domain names. What domains would you register? How many of the oldest websites on the Internet would you own today? Let us know in the comments or tweet us @methodshop.

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