Everybody is well aware of the importance of a name in a person’s life and similarly is the importance of existence of domain name for a business or organization may it is private or government.
We have discussed about domain in our previous articles- Read Here, and now we would love to share some important facts associated with domain since its birth.
148,344,875 domains have been registered till date (updates from 2014)
Symbolics.com is the first ever registered domain name, registered on March 15, 1985.
Other domains registered in following dates are mentioned below:
bbn.com April 24, 1985.
Think.com May 24,1985 and the countdown continues…
FREE Domains
Yes free, but until 1995. All the domains were free until 1995 and after that the domain selling started.
1995: $100
1997: $70
Then price kept falling frequently after the formation of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers) in 1998.
The Nigerian domain extension, “.ng”, is the most expensive TLD which is $40,000/ year.
Vacationrentals.com is the most expensive domain name ever sold in $35 million in year 2007
Others in the list are:
Privatejet.com -> $30.2 million
Insure.com -> $16 million
All possible combinations of 2 and 3 word domains are already taken and are not available. One may buy them from the seller but at price higher than normal and the price will depend on the popularity and potential power of the name.
All the a….com domains are already taken and this includes all the combinations for example:
a.com
aaaa.com
aaaaaaaa……………x63.com
A person name Mike Mann holds a record of registering ~15000 domains in a single day and claiming it as a future economy building work.
Standard domain name length is 63 characters and currently there are only a few domain names this much long.
