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.
VeriSign Increases Domain Name Fees In 2010
December 18, No CommentsThe thieves at Verisign announced today that effective July 1, 2010 there will be an increase in domain name fees for .com and .net.
The registry fee for .com domain names will increase from $6.86 to $7.34 and the registry fee for .net domain names will increase, from $4.23 to $4.65.
In a release to the market today, the organisation appeared to justify the increase saying:
“Over the last decade, the volume of Internet traffic and domain name system (DNS) queries on VeriSign’s global infrastructure has increased from an average of approximately 2 billion queries per day in the year 2000 to more than 50 billion queries per day today..”
To save you some maths, the industry is looking at a .com increase of 48 cents and .net increase of 42 cents. Happy New Year!
