From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 19:38:05 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, symbolics.com! In-Reply-To: <20180314222309.GO16269@h-174-65.A328.priv.bahnhof.se> References: <20180314222309.GO16269@h-174-65.A328.priv.bahnhof.se> Message-ID: Michael Kjörling 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. -- f.anthony.n.finch http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode Northeast Viking, North Utsire: Southeasterly 5 to 7, occasionally gale 8 in south, decreasing 4 at times in north. Moderate or rough in northern and eastern North Utsire, otherwise rough or very rough. Fair. Good.