The .COM domain is 30 years old
On 15 March 1985, is not a date extremely popular, but it was that day that was born the first site with .com domain. That’s what it was. The most popular domain on the web was born March 15, 1985, with the anniversary fell right over the past weekend. Known to English speakers as ” dot com “, the .com domain was registered for the first time by the producing company Symbolics computer on a network is not available to all called Arpanet. Although the company is now defunct, symbolics.com was bought by investment group XF.com, and is the oldest .com domain of the history of the Internet.
Despite today .com is almost synonymous with the same Internet and its use has spread along a huge number of the web sites of many different types. The domain took a few years before ” take off “. In 1987 there were only 100 registered .com domains, although among these, we found the likes of Xerox (9 January 1986), HP (March 3, 1986), IBM (19 March 1986), Intel (25 March 1986), Adobe ( November 17, 1986) and Apple (19 February 1987).
But the key year for the spread of the Internet was in 1990, when the World Wide Web was developed in the laboratories at CERN in Switzerland. Until then, the Web sites contained only text, but with the birth of the web could be created more engaging user experience with sounds, pictures and a so-called user interface. After 30 years, the three letters ” com ” are part of a business estimated at about 1.3 trillion dollars a year.
” Over the past 30 years, the Internet has evolved from unknown phenomenon mainly used by academics and researchers, to a system of communication and global commerce channel and sharing of information that few can do without, ” said the seller of domains Verisign on the anniversary. ” Today three billion people around the world are online, and more than 1.3 trillion dollars of global sales channels of e-commerce based on the Internet. ”
Even today the .com domain is among the most popular globally, with about 80,000 new sites ” dot com ” that are recorded on a daily basis, about one per second. Its popularity may be impaired, but not that much, because of the dissemination of new domains open and more specific, as .food, .video, .goo, or even the most absurd domains, as .rocks or .sucks. But according to Verisign, we do not actually need and .com might have a life much longer than expected.
According to the company, if all 2.5 billion Internet users registers a .com domain every second for the next 30 million years, these would be able to occupy only a small fraction – of much less than 1% – of the domain names available today.
