Jottings has compiled a list. Here are the top 10
1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.com
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.com
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.com
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.com
5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.com
6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.com
7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.com
8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.com
9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.com
10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.com
* list only includes currently registered domains
A lot of two letter domains in there showing that they pre-date the two letter rules
Michele - I don’t think that there ever was a two letter rule for .com or .net domains. It seems to be a relatively recent introduction. It was .org that introduced the rule and as two letter .org domains lapsed, they could not be reregistered.
It might be interesting to see a list of the oldest Irish owned .com domains. I think that TE.NET is still around. (Telecom Eireann’s old brand).
Ooh, Symbolics, makers of scary LISP machines, got in first. They were cool things
And it took a year for ten registrations. Wonder how many registrations there are per year these days?
John “TE.NET… Record created on 24-Feb-1996.”
It’s but about 10 years too late to make the list!
a cool domain to have would be ThE.NET, but its already
taken by utsystem.edu