Mitre.org, the first registered .ORG domain name, has turned 35 years old.
Registered on July 10, 1985, Mitre.org represents Mitre Corporation, an American non-profit that runs numerous federally-funded research and development units.
According to their web site at Mitre.org:
As a not-for-profit organization, MITRE works in the public interest across federal, state and local governments, as well as industry and academia. We bring innovative ideas into existence in areas as varied as artificial intelligence, intuitive data science, quantum information science, health informatics, space security, policy and economic expertise, trustworthy autonomy, cyber threat sharing, and cyber resilience.
Here’s a list of the first 10 .org domains ever registered:
mitre.org 10-Jul-1985
src.org 25-Mar-1986
super.org 10-Jul-1986
aero.org 7-Jan-1987
mcnc.org 15-Jan-1987
rand.org 2-Apr-1987
mn.org 4-Apr-1987
rti.org 1-May-1987
usenix.org 14-Jul-1987
software.org 2-Sep-1987
fidonet.org 25-Feb-1988