The domain name .com is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. .COM is one of the first set of gTLD. It was first implemented for use on the Internet in January 1985. The internet celebrates a landmark event on the 15 March – the 25th birthday of the day the first dotcom name was registered. The following are the 100 oldest still-existing registered .com domains:
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 11. 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM 12. 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM 13. 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM 14. 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM 15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM 16. 08-May-1986 GMR.COM 17. 08-May-1986 TEK.COM 18. 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM 19. 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM 20. 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM 21. 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM 22. 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM 23. 05-Aug-1986 ISC.COM 24. 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM 25. 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM 26. 02-Sep-1986 BOEING.COM 27. 18-Sep-1986 ITCORP.COM 28. 29-Sep-1986 SIEMENS.COM 29. 18-Oct-1986 PYRAMID.COM 30. 27-Oct-1986 ALPHACDC.COM 31. 27-Oct-1986 BDM.COM 32. 27-Oct-1986 FLUKE.COM 33. 27-Oct-1986 INMET.COM 34. 27-Oct-1986 KESMAI.COM 35. 27-Oct-1986 MENTOR.COM 36. 27-Oct-1986 NEC.COM 37. 27-Oct-1986 RAY.COM 38. 27-Oct-1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM 39. 27-Oct-1986 VORTEX.COM 40. 05-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM 41. 05-Nov-1986 GTE.COM 42. 17-Nov-1986 ADOBE.COM 43. 17-Nov-1986 AMD.COM 44. 17-Nov-1986 DAS.COM 45. 17-Nov-1986 DATA-IO.COM 46. 17-Nov-1986 OCTOPUS.COM 47. 17-Nov-1986 PORTAL.COM 48. 17-Nov-1986 TELTONE.COM 49. 11-Dec-1986 3COM.COM 50. 11-Dec-1986 AMDAHL.COM 51. 11-Dec-1986 CCUR.COM 52. 11-Dec-1986 CI.COM 53. 11-Dec-1986 CONVERGENT.COM 54. 11-Dec-1986 DG.COM 55. 11-Dec-1986 PEREGRINE.COM 56. 11-Dec-1986 QUAD.COM 57. 11-Dec-1986 SQ.COM 58. 11-Dec-1986 TANDY.COM 59. 11-Dec-1986 TTI.COM 60. 11-Dec-1986 UNISYS.COM 61. 19-Jan-1987 CGI.COM 62. 19-Jan-1987 CTS.COM 63. 19-Jan-1987 SPDCC.COM 64. 19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COM 65. 04-Mar-1987 NMA.COM 66. 04-Mar-1987 PRIME.COM 67. 04-Apr-1987 PHILIPS.COM 68. 23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM 69. 23-Apr-1987 KAI.COM 70. 23-Apr-1987 TIC.COM 71. 23-Apr-1987 VINE.COM 72. 30-Apr-1987 NCR.COM 73. 14-May-1987 CISCO.COM 74. 14-May-1987 RDL.COM 75. 20-May-1987 SLB.COM 76. 27-May-1987 PARCPLACE.COM 77. 27-May-1987 UTC.COM 78. 26-Jun-1987 IDE.COM 79. 09-Jul-1987 TRW.COM 80. 13-Jul-1987 UNIPRESS.COM 81. 27-Jul-1987 DUPONT.COM 82. 27-Jul-1987 LOCKHEED.COM 83. 28-Jul-1987 ROSETTA.COM 84. 18-Aug-1987 TOAD.COM 85. 31-Aug-1987 QUICK.COM 86. 03-Sep-1987 ALLIED.COM 87. 03-Sep-1987 DSC.COM 88. 03-Sep-1987 SCO.COM 89. 22-Sep-1987 GENE.COM 90. 22-Sep-1987 KCCS.COM 91. 22-Sep-1987 SPECTRA.COM 92. 22-Sep-1987 WLK.COM 93. 30-Sep-1987 MENTAT.COM 94. 14-Oct-1987 WYSE.COM 95. 02-Nov-1987 CFG.COM 96. 09-Nov-1987 MARBLE.COM 97. 16-Nov-1987 CAYMAN.COM 98. 16-Nov-1987 ENTITY.COM 99. 24-Nov-1987 KSR.COM 100. 30-Nov-1987 NYNEXST.COM
(Source: 100 Oldest Domain )
Gathering Information About Old Domain Names
UNIX and OS X users can type the following commands to grab more information about these domain names without visiting any 3rd party websites:
Find Whois Information
Type the following command:
whois domainName
whois SYMBOLICS.COM
Sample outputs:
Registrant:
Meystedt, Aron
XF.com Company
PO BOX 293
Cape Girardeau, MO 63702
US
Domain Name: SYMBOLICS.COM
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Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Meystedt, Aron admin.noSPAM at XF.com
XF.com Company
PO BOX 293
Cape Girardeau, MO 63702
US
573-450-8272
Record expires on 16-Mar-2016.
Record created on 15-Mar-1985.
Database last updated on 15-Mar-2010 13:08:00 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.AMERINOC.COM
NS2.AMERINOC.COM
Get IP Address And Other Information
List name server:
host -t ns SYMBOLICS.COM
List mail servers:
host -t mx SYMBOLICS.COM
List IPv4 and IPv6 address:
host -t A SYMBOLICS.COM
host -t AAAA SYMBOLICS.COM
Query For Any Type Of Record Information
dig any SYMBOLICS.COM
Sample outputs:
; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P2 <<>> any SYMBOLICS.COM ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18452 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;SYMBOLICS.COM. IN ANY ;; ANSWER SECTION: SYMBOLICS.COM. 14364 IN SOA ns1.phatservers.COM. root.SYMBOLICS.COM. 2009091401 14400 3600 1209600 86400 SYMBOLICS.COM. 7799 IN A 64.6.107.133 SYMBOLICS.COM. 7799 IN NS ns1.phatservers.COM. SYMBOLICS.COM. 7799 IN NS ns2.phatservers.COM. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: SYMBOLICS.COM. 7799 IN NS ns2.phatservers.COM. SYMBOLICS.COM. 7799 IN NS ns1.phatservers.COM. ;; Query time: 33 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Mon Mar 15 22:47:47 2010 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 164
Request A Zone Transfer
Type the following command (this may not work if you are not on authorized slave server, in most case this is blocked by hostmaster):
dig @ns1.example.com example.com axfr
Shell And Perl Script Hacks
You can put all old domain names in a text file and run some commands over all old domains:
#!/bin/bash
input=100old.txt
while -r domain
do
echo "Do something on $domain"
# host -t ns $domain
done <"$input"Net::DNS is a DNS resolver implemented in Perl. It allows the programmer to perform nearly any type of DNS query from a Perl script. Here is a sample perl script to find out name server address:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Net::DNS;
$res = new Net::DNS::Resolver;
$query = $res->query("IBM.COM", "NS");
if ($query) {
foreach $rr ($query->answer) {
next unless $rr->type eq "NS";
print $rr->nsdname, "\n";
}
}
else {
print "query failed: ", $res->errorstring, "\n";
}
Except that many of the companies don’t exist anymore and are now either masses of links or redirect you to their new corporate owner.
The code and utilities at the bottom of the page are interesting, though.