The oldest domain sold

Investment company XF.com bought the oldest domain on the Internet.

The domain symbolics.com was registered on March 15, 1985 by the American firm Symbolics , which wanted to show the public its personal computers optimized for the execution of commands in the LISP language. These were the first computers, which were called “workstation”.

For a quarter century, the domain has never (!) Changed its owner. Just now. The amount of the transaction is unknown, but its purpose is quite clear. After all, this is just an ideal investment. The first domain on the Internet will always be the first, and its value only grows every year, like the value of any historical exhibit. People will always go there, and the PageRank of the site is almost impossible to destroy, because the domain has already been entered into the annals of history.
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Today, there are over 180 million registered domains on the World Wide Web, and every day their number is growing by several thousand. Here is a list of the 100 oldest domains , partially already published on Habré.

1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM
5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM
6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM
7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM
8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM
9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM
10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM
11. 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM
12. 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
13. 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
14. 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
16. 08-May-1986 GMR.COM
17. 08-May-1986 TEK.COM
18. 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM
19. 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM
20. 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM
21. 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM
22. 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM
23. 05-Aug-1986 ISC.COM
24. 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM
25. 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM