nic.ddn.mil post-dated symbolics.com registering by a couple of years. They had a complicated form to fill out to get a domain name after the less formal system became too burdensome to scale.

Warner

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Angus Robinson <angus@fairhaven.za.net> wrote:

According to wikipoedia, .com was setup in January of 1985 and was administered by the US Department of Defense. Although they contracted SRI International, which in turn created DDN-NIC (SRI-NIC), which was found at nic.ddn.mil.

Assuming they registered it under SRI-NIC.

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 2:18 PM Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote:

On 03/14/2018 14:14, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> The first Internet domain, symbolics.com, was registered in 1985 at
> 0500Z ("Zulu" time, i.e. UTC).
>

This was well before my time, so pardon my ignorance here, but who was
the registrar that they used to register this domain?

thanks!
-pete

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