25 Years Of .Com – This .Net Is Older….
February 8, 2 CommentsLets not let the facts get in the way of a good story about the Internet. While symbolics.com might be the oldest currently registered dot com, its not the oldest currently registered domain.
As I pointed out years ago, nordu.net has a creation date of 01-jan-1985.
For those that don’t know, nordu.net is used by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden as their research and academic backbone. The interesting thing about this domain is that it was registered before you could actually register domains, which officially began on 15 Jan 1985 as per RFC921.
For those Americans reading this; sorry guys, the Europeans beat you to it. 
Now lets get back to celebrating how great Verisign is and their price rise to $7.34 in July 2010.
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That’s rubbish. Nordu.net was reserved as a root server (nic.nordu.net) but Symbolics.com was the first to be registered through the appropriate DNS process. The first TCP/IP-based WAN had already been operational for two years when nordu.net was created, right around the time the United States’ National Science Foundation (NSF) commissioned the construction of NSFNET, a university 56 kilobit/second network backbone. Only six companies thought it’d be a good idea to reserve the domain name on the root servers in 1985 (the others were bbn.com, think.com, mcc.com, dec.com and northrop.com)
Ahhh Acro – tell us what you really think!
It’s true that symbolics was the first to be registered through “the process”, which was created at that time. The whois records speak for themselves… as does Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently-registered_Internet_domain_names
For those that are interested, you can read the History of Nordu.Net here http://www.nordu.net/history/TheHistoryOfNordunet_simple.pdf