Happy Birthday, .com!

.com turned 25 years old on March 15. Bet you didn’t know that.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the first .com domain name, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15, 1985, by a Massachusetts computer firm that I’ve never heard of. It was followed by a veritable who’s who of the computer industry back then:

BBN.com – April 24, 1985

Think.com – May 24, 1985

MCC.com – July 11, 1985

DEC.com – Sept. 30, 1985

Northrop.com – Nov. 7, 1985

Xerox.com – Jan. 9, 1986

SRI.com – Jan. 17, 1986

HP.com – March 3, 1986

Bellcore.com – March 5, 1986

Happy birthday, .com!