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the very first Domains
registered in

1985 - 1986 - 1987
- 1988 - 1989
VB Domain Timeline

 
     
 
 
 
the 54 Domains registered in 1986
 
Rank Date  
Registrant / Present Owner First Version Status
             
7 Jan 9 1986
Xerox.com
Xerox Corporation
Domain Registrar
100 Clinton Ave South
Rochester, NY 14644
USA
first Version alive
8 Jan 17 1986
SRI.com
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA
first Version alive
9 March 3 1986
HP.com
Hewlett-Packard Company
3000 Hanover
St. Palo Alto CA 94304
USA
first Version alive
10 March 5 1986  
Bellcore.com
Telcordia Technologies
1 Telcordia Drive
Piscataway, NJ 08854
USA
first Version dead
11 March 19 1986
Sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
4150 Network Circle
Santa Clara, CA 95054
USA
first Version alive
12 March 19 1986
IBM.com
International Business Machines Corp
New Orchard Road
Armonk, NY 10504
USA
first Version alive
13 March 25 1986
TI.com
Texas Instruments Inc
6500 Chase Oaks Blvd
MS 8440
Plano, TX 75023
USA
first Version alive
14 March 25 1986
Intel.com
Intel Corporation Domain Admin
2200 Mission College Blvd
Mail Stop SC4-203
Santa Clara, CA 95052-8119
USA
first Version alive
15 April 25 1986
ATT.com
AT&T Corp.
Corporate Administration
32 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10013
USA
first Version alive
16 May 8 1986  
GMR.com
General Motors
Research & Development Center
30500 Mound Road Warren,
MI 48090 US
USA
domain
was never
in active use
dead
17 May 8 1986
TEK.com
Tektronix, Inc
POB 500 MS 58-804
Beaverton, OR 97077
USA
  alive
18 July 10 1986 Initial Registrant
lost the Domain,
now owned by
a largeDomain Investor
UB.com
Domain Capital
2050 Center Ave, Suite 600
Fort Lee
NEW JERSEY 07024
USA
  ad links
19 July 10 1986
FMC.com
FMC Corporation
1735 Market Street Philadelphia,
PA 19103
USA
  alive
20 Aug 5 1986
GE.com
General Electric Company
Internet Registrations
3135 Easton Turnpike
Fairfield, CT 06828-0001
USA
  alive
21 Aug 5 1986 Bell-Atl.com     redirected
22 Aug 5 1986 amateur website Grebyn.com     alive
23 Aug 5 1986 ISC.com     alive
24 Aug 5 1986 NSC.com     redirected
25 Aug 5 1986 Stargate.com     alive
26 Sep 2 1986 Boeing.com     alive
27 Sep 18 1986   IT Corp.com      
28 Sep 29 1986 Siemens.com     alive
29 Oct 18 1986 Pyramid.com     alive
30 Oct 27 1986 Alphacdc.com     alive
31 Oct 27 1986 BDM.com     alive
32 Oct 27 1986 Fluke.com Fluke Corporation
6920 Seaway Blvd
Everett
WA 98203
USA
  alive
33 Oct 27 1986 Initial Registrant
lost the Domain,
now owned by
a largeDomain Investor
Inmet.com     ad links
34 Oct 27 1986   Kesmai.com     dead
35 Oct 27 1986 Mentor.com     alive
36 Oct 27 1986 NEC.com     alive
37 Oct 27 1986   RAY.com     dead
38 Oct 27 1986 Rosemount.com     redirected
39 Oct 27 1986 Vortex.com     alive
40 Nov 5 1986 Alcoa.com     alive
41 Nov 5 1986 GTE.com     redirected
42 Nov 17 1986 Adobe.com     alive
43 Nov 17 1986 AMD.com     alive
44 Nov 17 1986 DAS.com     alive
sold
45 Nov 17 1986 Data-IO.com     alive
46 Nov 17 1986   Octopus.com     alive
47 Nov 17 1986   Portal.com     redirected
48 Nov 17 1986 Teltone.com     alive
49 Dec 11 1986 3Com.com     alive
50 Dec 11 1986   Amdahl.com     redirected
51 Dec 11 1986   CCUR.com      
52 Dec 11 1986 CI.com     alive
53 Dec 11 1986 Convergent.com     alive
54 Dec 11 1986 logo has changed DG.com     alive
change
55 Dec 11 1986 redirects to
HP Software

Peregrine.com     redirected
56 Dec 11 1986   Quad.com     ad links
57 Dec 11 1986   SQ.com     dead
58 Dec 11 1986   Tandy.com     dead
59 Dec 11 1986   TTI.com     dead
60 Dec 11 1986 Unisys.com     alive



 
 
 
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