From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, symbolics.com!
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 19:38:05 +0000 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <20180314222309.GO16269@h-174-65.A328.priv.bahnhof.se>
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Michael Kjörling <michael at kjorling.se> wrote:
>
> So by what definition would symbolics.com in 1985 be the first
> Internet domain registered?
As I understand it, the old hosts.txt registrations got grandfathered into
the DNS in the .arpa zone - they were ARPANET hosts (e.g. see RFC 921).
The modern structure was set up after the transition to IP, so it's fair
to call .com and friends Internet domains. (See RFC 920.)
But it looks like there were a bunch of .edu and .gov names before
Symbolics.
Tony.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-15 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-14 21:14 Dave Horsfall
2018-03-14 21:18 ` Pete Wright
2018-03-14 22:14 ` Angus Robinson
2018-03-14 22:19 ` Pete Wright
2018-03-14 23:22 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-14 23:31 ` George Michaelson
2018-03-14 23:38 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-15 19:44 ` Tony Finch
2018-03-14 22:23 ` Michael Kjörling
2018-03-14 22:42 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-14 22:52 ` George Michaelson
2018-03-14 23:05 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-15 19:38 ` Tony Finch [this message]
2018-03-15 21:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-16 9:51 ` Tony Finch
2018-03-16 12:00 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-03-16 22:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-16 19:09 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-14 22:00 Noel Chiappa
2018-03-14 22:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-14 23:01 Noel Chiappa
2018-03-14 23:07 Noel Chiappa
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