The .com suffix might just be one of the commonest things you would come across in your daily life. However, did you know that March 15 marked the 25th anniversary of the registration of the first domain name ever?
Back in 1985, March 15 to be precise, a small computer manufacturer from Massachusetts, US quietly registered a domain name called Symbolics.com. Back then, it might have not even made it to the local newspaper as a small headline. However, 25 years and over 200,000,000 registrations later, Symbolics.com is in the headlines again for obvious reasons. While the company no longer exists, Symbolics.com is still live. The site was sold to its current owner, XF.com in 2009 and now serves as a blog.
The world today sees over 600,000 new domain registrations every single day! Back in the 80 s, the second domain name after Symbolics.com was registered a month later. By 1987, the number of domains had increased to 100. Most of the world's popular domain names didn t even exist back then. The Googles, Yahoos and the Facebooks are just a recent phenomenon. According to a latest ITIF (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation) study, the dotcom domain contributes 400 billion dollars in annual economic activity! This is expected to rise to a staggering 950 billion dollars by 2020. VeriSign also has some interesting statistics about the type of dotcoms in existence today. For example, 11.9 million dotcoms are e-commerce and online business websites, 4.3 million are entertainment-related sites and 1.8 million are sports-related sites, according to VeriSign. In all, there are about 80 million dotcoms.
You might want to check the website,(yet another dotcom) which has bee set up to oversee the 25th anniversary celebrations of the dotcom.
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