dot com turns 25yrs old this week!

March 19th, 2010 admin Posted in Latest @ Viatell |

Its hard to remember a time when dot com wasn’t a household fraze. 25 years ago Symbolics a Massachusetts computer company was the first to register a .com domain symbolics.com. In March 1985 the cost to register a domain name was $70. Now you can register domain names for around $10. Also consider that most domain names registered from 1985-1995 are worth well over $50k now.  Most of them are 3 or 4 letter combinations which are all completely gone now. It may even be tough to find a .com w/ a 5 letter combination. In 1995 it was recorded that 120,000 domain names were registered. Now in 2010 there are well over 11 million! Who said .com was a fad.  Think of all of the jobs the dot com had created. I have no clue what I personally would be doing with out dot com. So tonight when you are out with your friends give a birthday toast to dot com. Happy 25th!!