Symbolics.com turned 36 – museum and internet history added

Symbolics.com, the first .com domain ever registered, turned 36 years old today. Registered on March 15, 1985, Symbolics.com has become the symbol of a new technological era in communications, following the invention of the internet in 1974. Two years before Symbolics.com was registered, the adoption of the TCP/IP protocol enabled the creation of the modern […]

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#Symbolics .com : Aron Meysted’s #domain baby is now 35 years old

Happy 35th birthday, Symbolics.com. The first domain name ever to be registered, on March 15, 1985, celebrates is third-and-a-half decade today. 😀 Aron Meystedt‘s baby of a domain is a milestone of Internet history. Back in the day, nobody had ever heard about domain names. Aron wasn’t much of a toddler either, but in 2009 […]

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#Symbolics .com : Oldest .com #domain now hosting an Internet museum

Symbolics.com, the oldest registered .com domain, is a piece of Internet history on its own accord. Registered on March 15, 1985, this domain relic represents the beginning of the domain industry’s 30+ year history. Aron Maystedt, owner of Symbolics.com since 2009, announced the addition of an Internet Museum as a permanent exhibit on Symbolics.com. The […]

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XF.com is for sale and the price is in the millions of dollars!

Super premium, two letter .com domain, XF.com is up for sale. Aron Meystedt, the owner of XF.com, used it for several years for his personal, services-oriented web site, XF Investments. Meystedt recently rebranded to Napkin.com. Registered in 1994, XF.com is being offered for sale for the first time ever. The price: $3.5 million dollars. Without […]

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Aron Meystedt’s Napkin.com rolls out example case of angel investing

Domain investor and Symbolics.com owner, Aron Meystedt, has launched an advisory company from the domain Napkin.com. The unlikely name, used primarily to wipe remnants of food away from one’s mouth and hands, indicates the process of sketching ideas on a napkin. “We’re doing this as a reminder that nothing beats writing your ideas on a […]

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Domain party like it’s 1985 : Happy 31st birthday, Symbolics.com

It’s been 31 years since March 15th, 1985 – the date that the domain Symbolics.com became the first ever .com to be registered after a company applied for it. Through the years, Symbolics.com was used as a temporary placeholder for ancient software, and eventually domain investor Aron Meystedt acquired it, for an undisclosed amount in […]

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More symbolics: Aron Meystedt acquires VE.com

Aron Meystedt already owns the oldest .com domain, Symbolics.com. This does not mean he sits on his domain laurels, and over the years he acquired several generic domains and short acronyms. His XF.com is used as a Dallas based investment company, and it seems that Aron just acquired another two letter gem, VE.com. According to […]

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Winter Solstice: Which two popular domainers share the same birthday?

They say that December is the worst month of the year to have a birthday in; one’s very personal date is lost in the glitz of the Holiday season, and its shopping madness. Two very popular domain investors, however, seem to differ, and they share the same birthday – December 21st. Domain investor and serial […]

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Symbolics dot com turns 29 today!

Symbolics.com – the first domain name ever to be registered – turned 29 years old today. The domain name Symbolics.com was registered on Friday, March 15th, 1985 by Symbolics, Inc., a computer manufacturer headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the time. In 2009 Symbolics.com was sold to XF Investments, owned by domain investor Aaron Meystedt, who […]

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Bina Bitterman: Life isn’t all about domains, darlings

Hello domainer darlings, this is Bina Bitterman – the Domain Socialite, and I’m so utterly bored tonight. I can’t believe we’re half way through February already; pretty soon I will be in Saint-Tropez to show off my callipygous body. My personal trainer, Jean Pierre, thinks I’m simply divine. Merci bien, JP. I have been reading […]

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Bina Bitterman: Drop your domains and switch to collectible coins

Happy new year, darlings, this is Bina Bitterman – the Domain Socialite, an aura of glitz and glamor for those of you that do not partake in social gatherings outside of Wal-Mart trips. As I’m heading out to Las Vegas after two busy weeks in Paris, France, may I remind you that reproduction monuments such […]

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