What were the first 10 .com domains registered?  I know symbolics.com
(March 15, 1985) was the first .com domain to be registered, but what
were the next 9?

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Clarification of Question by allan-ga on 06 Jan 2003 18:54 PST

Just to clarify, I don't want the first 10 domains registered, I want
the first .COM domains registered.  So, I don't want this list:

SYMBOLICS.COM,  Symbolics Technology, 15th March 1985 
BBN.COM, BBNCorporation, 24th April. 1985
CMU.EDU, Carnegie-Mellon University, 24th April 1985
PURDUE.EDU,  Purdue University, 24th April 1985
RICE.EDU,  Rice University, 24th April  1985
BERKELEY.EDU, University of California at Berkeley,  24th April 1985
UCLA.EDU  University of California, Los Angeles 24th April 1985
RUTGERS.EDU, Rutgers University, 24th April 1985
MIT.EDU, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 23rd May 1985
THINK.COM, Thinking Machines Corporation,  24th May 1985

Hi Allan,

Following on from the comments section, I am posting a slightly more
comprehensive answer.

The First 6
===========
 
SYMBOLICS.COM  15-Mar-85 
BBN.COM        24-Apr-85 
THINK.COM      24-May-85 
MCC.COM        11-Jul-85 
DEC.COM        30-Sep-85 
NORTHROP.COM   07-Nov-85 
http://www.harbornet.com/ken/nicv2i03.txt 

The Next 19
===========

XEROX.COM    9 Jan 86 
SRI.COM     17 Jan 86
HP.COM       3 Mar 86
BELLCORE     5 Mar 86
SUN.COM     19 Mar 86
IBM.COM     19 Mar 86 
TI.COM      24 Mar 86
INTEL.COM   25 Mar 86 
ATT.COM     25 Apr 86 
TEK.COM      8 May 86
GMR.COM      8 May 86
STARGATE     8 May 86
UB.COM      10 Jul 86
FMC.COM     10 Jul 86
ISC.COM      5 Aug 86
BELL-ATL.COM 5 Aug 86
GE.COM       5 Aug 86
GREBYN.COM   5 Aug 86
NSC.COM      5 Aug 86

The above 19 come from looking up the WHOIS records of each of the
registered dotcom domains as at 15-Dec-87:
http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/reference/net-directory/domain-info/domain-info.txt
 
As aceresearcher-ga points out, many of the domain names that were
registered pre Dec 87 have more recent dates in their WHOIS records,
due to the name expiring temporarily. Otherwise, the list is probably
as accurate as anyone could compile.


Best wishes,
robertskelton-ga

This is about the best answer that could have been found without
access to the original InterNIC database.  Thanks for a great job!!

The first six:

SYMBOLICS.COM  15-Mar-85
BBN.COM        24-Apr-85
THINK.COM      24-May-85
MCC.COM        11-Jul-85
DEC.COM        30-Sep-85
NORTHROP.COM   07-Nov-85
http://www.harbornet.com/ken/nicv2i03.txt

All dotcoms as at 15-Dec-87
http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/reference/net-directory/domain-info/domain-info.txt

As at Oct 1990
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=ulmwdy26w.fsf%40earthlink.net&output=gplain

XEROX.COM    9 Jan 86
IBM.COM     19 Mar 86
INTEL.COM   25 Mar 86
ATT.COM     25 Apr 86
TEK.COM      8 May 86

It looks like that is the answer, or as close to it as anyone is going
to find :).  My question now is, how do I handle payment, since two
researchers provided data?

allan,

I cannot verify that the domains I added are the next 5 after the
first 6.

I used my knowledge of the state of the computing industry and the
early players in the development of the Usenet/Internet/World Wide Web
to guess at some of the companies that I thought should be toward the
top of the list. (Surprisingly, apple.com's origination date is as
late as 19 Feb 87.)

If you look at robertskelton's link:
"All dotcoms as at 15-Dec-87 
http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/reference/net-directory/domain-info/domain-info.txt
"
you will see a list of the earliest registered dot.com domains.

If you go to Network Solutions' "whois" lookup page at
   http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois
or to the "Better WhoIs" website at
   http://www.betterwhois.com
you can enter these domains to see what origination date they show.
However, some of these dates show as much later than 1987, because the
owner either let it expire and then reacquired it, or because it has
since been acquired by a different owner.

I believe that robertskelton may have provided you with the best
information there is available (at least without doing hours of
research), and I encourage you to ask him to post his Answer and claim
the fee.

Thank you for your consideration!

aceresearcher

Robert,

That's a great answer, and about as good as could be expected :). 
Incidentally, from the list you posted at
(http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/reference/net-directory/domain-info/domain-info.txt)
I registered the domain SCVCS.COM.  I don't really have a need for it,
but it is cool knowing that I have one of the first 160 or domains
registered :).

Thanks for a great answer!!