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# symbolics.com: the first registered .com domain name

**Symbolics.com** is the first registered .com domain name on the Internet; it is to say, **the oldest .com domain**. It was registered by Symbolics, Inc., an American computer manufacturer, back on March 15, 1985. Decades later, in August 2009, it was acquired by XF.com Investments (now napkin.com).

## First 100 registered .com domains

The first 100 .com domain names were registered between March 15, 1985 and November 30, 1987.

| **Registration date** | **Domain name** | **Registered by** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| March 15, 1985 | symbolics.com | Symbolics, Inc. |
| April 24, 1985 | bbn.com | Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (now Raytheon BBN) |
| May 24, 1985 | think.com | Thinking Machines Corporation |
| July 11, 1985 | mcc.com | Microelectronics and Computer Consortium (later Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation) |
| September 30, 1985 | dec.com | Digital Equipment Corporation |
| November 7, 1985 | northrop.com | Northrop Corporation |
| January 9, 1986 | xerox.com | Xerox Holdings Corporation |
| January 17, 1986 | sri.com | SRI International |
| March 3, 1986 | hp.com | Hewlett-Packard Company |
| March 5, 1986 | bellcore.com | Bellcore (now iconectiv) |
| March 19, 1986 | ibm.com | International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) |
| | sun.com | Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
| March 25, 1986 | intel.com | Intel Corporation |
| | ti.com | Texas Instruments Incorporated |
| April 25, 1986 | att.com | AT&T, Inc. |
| May 8, 1986 | gmr.com | General Motors Research Laboratories |
| | tek.com | Tektronix, Inc. (known as Tek) |
| July 10, 1986 | fmc.com | FMC Corporation |
| | ub.com | Ungermann-Bass (also UB Networks) |
| August 5, 1986 | bell-atl.com | Verizon Communications, Inc. (known as Verizon) |
| | ge.com | General Electric Company |
| | grebyn.com | Grebyn Corporation |
| | isc.com | Interactive Systems Corporation |
| | nsc.com | National Semiconductor |
| | stargate.com | Stargate Information Services |
| September 2, 1986 | boeing.com | The Boeing Company |
| September 18, 1986 | ITCorp.com | Interrupt Technology Corporation |
| September 29, 1986 | siemens.com | Siemens |
| October 18, 1986 | pyramid.com | Pyramid Technology Corporation |
| October 27, 1986 | alphacdc.com | Alpha Communications Development Corporation |
| | bdm.com | Braddock, Dunn & McDonald (later BDM International) |
| | fluke.com | Fluke Corporation |
| | inmet.com | Intermetrics, Inc. (later AverStar) |
| | kesmai.com | Kesmai |
| | mentor.com | Mentor Graphics (acquired by Siemens in 2017) |
| | nec.com | NEC Corporation |
| | ray.com | Raytheon Technologies Corporation |
| | rosemount.com | Rosemount, Inc. |
| | vortex.com | Vortex Technology |
| November 5, 1986 | alcoa.com | Alcoa Corporation |
| | gte.com | GTE Corporation |
| November 17, 1986 | adobe.com | Adobe Systems Incorporated |
| | amd.com | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. |
| | das.com | DA Systems, Inc. |
| | data-io | Data I/O |
| | octopus.com | Octopus Enterprises |
| | portal.com | Portal Information Network (later Portal Software, Inc.) |
| | teltone.com | Teltone Corporation |
| December 11, 1986 | 3com.com | 3Com Corporation |
| | amdahl.com | Amdahl Corporation |
| | ccur.com | Concurrent Computer Corporation |
| | ci.com | Cognition, Inc. |
| | convergent.com | Convergent Technologies, Inc. |
| | dg.com | Data General Corporation |
| | peregrine.com | Peregrine Systems, Inc. |
| | quad.com | Quadraton Systems, Inc. |
| | sq.com | SoftQuad Software |
| | tandy.com | Tandy Corporation |
| | tti.com | Citicorp (now Citigroup, Inc. or Citi) |
| | unisys.com | Unisys Corporation |
| January 19, 1987 | cgi.com | Carnegie Group, Inc. |
| | cts.com | Crash TimeSharing |
| | spdcc.com | S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting |
| February 19, 1987 | apple.com | Apple Computer Company (now Apple, Inc.) |
| March 4, 1987 | nma.com | Network Management Associates |
| | prime.com | Prime Computer, Inc. |
| April 4, 1987 | philips.com | N.V. Philips’ Gloeilampenfabrieken (known as Philips) |
| April 23, 1987 | datacube.com | Datacube, Inc. |
| | kai.com | Kuck and Associates, Inc. |
| | tic.com | Texas Internet Consulting |
| | vine.com | Vine Technology |
| April 30, 1987 | ncr.com | National Cash Register (now NCR Corporation) |
| May 14, 1987 | cisco.com | Cisco Systems, Inc (known as Cisco) |
| | rdl.com | Research Development Laboratories |
| May 20, 1987 | slb.com | Schlumberger Limited (SLB) |
| May 27, 1987 | parcplace.com | ParcPlace Systems, Inc. |
| | utc.com | United Technologies Corporation (UTC) |
| June 26, 1987 | ide.com | Interactive Development Environments, Inc. |
| July 9, 1987 | trw.com | TRW, Inc. |
| July 13, 1987 | unipress.com | Unipress Software |
| July 27, 1987 | dupont.com | DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (known as DuPont) |
| | lockheed.com | Lockheed Corporation |
| July 28, 1987 | rosetta.com | Rosetta Consulting |
| August 18, 1987 | toad.com | John Gilmore |
| August 31, 1987 | quick.com | Quicksilver Engineering |
| September 3, 1987 | allied.com | AlliedSignal |
| | dsc.com | Digital Sound Corporation |
| | sco.com | The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (known as SCO) |
| September 22, 1987 | gene.com | Genentech, Inc. |
| | kccs.com | KC Computer Sciences |
| | spectra.com | Spectragraphics Corporation |
| | wlk.com | W.L. Kennedy Jr. & Associates |
| September 30, 1987 | mentat.com | Mentat, Inc. |
| October 14, 1987 | wyse.com | Wyse Technology (Wyse) |
| November 2, 1987 | cfg.com | Caine, Farber & Gordon, Inc. |
| November 9, 1987 | marble.com | Marble Associates, Inc. |
| November 16, 1987 | cayman.com | Cayman Systems, Inc. |
| | entity.com | Entity Cyber, Inc. |
| November 24, 1987 | ksr.com | Kendall Square Research (KSR) |
| November 30, 1987 | nynexst.com | NYNEX Corporation |

Source: [iwhois](https://web.archive.org/web/20070313202458/http://www.jottings.com/100-oldest-dot-com-domains.htm) (archived)

## How many .com domains are registered nowadays?

According to [Verisign’s Domain Name Industry Brief of Q3 2022](https://www.verisign.com/assets/domain-name-report-Q32022.pdf), there are **160.9 million .com domain names registered in the world**, out of a total of 349.9 million registered domains across all top-level domains (TLDs).

> The 100 million .com domain names milestone was surpassed during Q1 2012, about 27 years after the registration of the very first one — as reported by Verisign on [The Domain Name Industry Brief of July 2012](https://www.verisign.com/assets/domain-name-brief-july2012.pdf).

## Top-level domain .com

The .com domain is **one of the top-level domains in the [Internet](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/evolution-internet-1997-2021/)’s Domain Name System (DNS)**. It is derived from the word *commercial*, as it was intended for domains registered by commercial organizations. However, it later became a domain for general purposes and the most commonly used one as well.

> The domains .com, .edu, .gov, .int, .mil, .net and .org were the first TLDs added in the DNS implementation at the beginning of 1985.

### First registered domain name of the original TLDs

| | **Registration date** | **Domain name** | **Registered by** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| .com | March 15, 1985 | symbolics.com | Symbolics, Inc. |
| .edu | April 24, 1985 | berkeley.edu | University of California, Berkeley |
| | | cmu.edu | Carnegie Mellon University |
| | | purdue.edu | Purdue University |
| | | rice.edu | Rice University |
| | | ucla.edu | University of California, Los Angeles |
| .gov | – | – | – |
| .int | October 10, 1995 | ffa.int | Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency |
| .mil | – | – | – |
| .net | January 1, 1985 | nordu.net | Nordic Infrastructure for Research and Education |
| .org | July 10, 1985 | mitre.org | The Mitre Corporation |

The lists of the oldest registered domain names of the first TLDs added to the Domain Name system are available on [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_registered_Internet_domain_names).

### Registration dates of tech platforms and companies’ .com domain names

Finally, just out of curiosity, here is a list of the .com domain name’s registration of some of the largest technology companies and platforms. Data is publicly available on [ICANN’s lookup tool](https://lookup.icann.org/en).

| **Company** | **Domain** | **Registration date** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Xerox | xerox.com | January 9, 1986 |
| HP | hp.com | March 3, 1986 |
| IBM | ibm.com | March 19, 1986 |
| Intel | intel.com | March 25, 1986 |
| Adobe | adobe.com | November 17, 1986 |
| Apple | apple.com | February 19, 1987 |
| Dell | dell.com | November 22, 1988 |
| Microsoft | microsoft.com | May 2, 1991 |
| Amazon | amazon.com | November 1, 1994 |
| Samsung | samsung.com | November 29, 1994 |
| eBay | ebay.com | August 4, 1995 |
| TikTok | tiktok.com | July 21, 1996 |
| Facebook/Meta | facebook.com | March 29, 1997 |
| Google | google.com | September 15, 1997 |
| Netflix | netflix.com | November 11, 1997 |
| Twitter | twitter.com | January 21, 2000 |
| WordPress | wordpress.com | March 3, 2000 |
| Linkedin | linkedin.com | November 2, 2002 |
| Instagram | instagram.com | June 4, 2004 |
| YouTube | youtube.com | February 15, 2005 |

Stackscale’s commercial domain name, [stackscale.com](https://www.stackscale.com), was registered on November 30, 2011, as our project to provide specialized cloud computing services was starting to take shape.