Symbolics.com selling price gets upped to 8 figures; tool valuation varies
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 […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Symbolics.com: Forty is the new twenty
March 15, 1985 was forty years ago and it’s the birthday of Symbolics.com — the first .com domain ever registered. On that Friday, someone took the task to record the creation of a domain name; at the time, domain registrations were handled by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) so whoever did that was […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Symbolics.com is now an AI-driven “domain expert!”
Symbolics.com is the oldest registered.com domain, dating back to March 15, 1985. The gem was acquired by domain investor and entrepreneur, Aron Meystedt, who turned it into an iconic shrine of the pre-commercial internet era. For the past 5 years, it has displayed content akin to that of an internet museum. But no more! Thanks […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Symbolics.com: Being first is what counts
It’s hard to believe that the first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com. Back in the day, the internet was a wild and untamed frontier, with no rules or regulations to speak of. But in the midst of all this chaos, one brave and visionary company stepped forward to claim the coveted title of first […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Symbolics.com: First .com #domain was registered at the end of the Soviet Union era
The domain name Symbolics.com was the first .com to be registered, on March 15, 1985. It was also the first domain to be registered by application, as opposed to by allocation; NORDU.net takes that crown. Symbolics.com turned 37 today and on the date of its registration, Mikhail Gorbachev had been president of the Soviet Union […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.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 […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#Swedish domains : Is ENEA.se really older than Symbolics.com ?
While Symbolics.com is the oldest registered .com domain, it’s not the oldest domain. That title goes to NORDU.net, registered on January 1, 1985. Swedish-operated NORDUnet was the first European network to embrace the TCP/IP technology and to connect to the National Science Foundation Network in the United States, providing open access for university students in […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Back to the future: Has the Symbolics.com #domain registration date changed?
Savvy domain investors know that Symbolics.com, the first hand-registered .com domain, was marked with a registration date of March 15th, 1985. It was a Friday, and during that same week people in US were listening to “Can’t Fight This Feeling” by REO Speedwagon, all while in the UK the Dead Or Alive had sent “You […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#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 […]
Aron Meystedt : Twitter account was suspended
Aron Meystedt, domain investor extraordinaire and registrant of Symbolics.com – the first .com domain name ever registered – announced that the Twitter account @AronMeystedt has been suspended. Meystedt’s Twitter account is @FirstDomain, dedicated to Symbolics.com. The Twitter account that was suspended was set up by an impostor, who used his photos: Anyone have a contact […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Shocking : You can buy the “first domain” for only $20,000 dollars!
When it comes down to buying aged domains, they arrive with a price tag representative of their maturity. Old domain names can be very expensive, and can cost tens of thousands of dollars, or more. Just how much would one have to pay to acquire the first domain? That’s hard to answer, without disclosing the […]
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