Symbolics.com clocked its first 40 years in existence yesterday, as the first ever .com domain name to be registered.
Congratulations go out to Aron Meystedt, who acquired the domain in 2009 after so many others had failed to do so. Aron’s company, Napkin.com, operates the domain as a multi-discipline source of internet memorabilia and AI tools.
As we noted two days ago, Symbolics.com is listed for sale on GoDaddy; the $500,000 dollar minimum asking price wasn’t representative of its value, surely.
But no worries: Aron has updated the listing, thus confirming its availability to acquire, and the price is now $20,000,000 dollars. That’s the minimum asking price, not a BIN.
Here’s the GoDaddy listing for Symbolics.com, modified ever-so-slightly, under the “Why it’s great” section:
It seems that valuations from automated tools vary; Saw.com values the domain at a mere $18,000 dollars, noting that it’s one of the first 255 domains ever registered. Estibot goes even lower, valuing Symbolics.com at $13,000 dollars. 
Clearly, both domain valuation tools have zero connection to not just the domain’s emotional value but also the actual value of the domain—what with it being the original out of hundreds of millions of .com domains in the four decades since.
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