Dot Com Turns 30-Years Old, and There's no Sign of its Popularity Declining

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Dot Com Turns 30-Years Old, and There's no Sign of its Popularity Declining

engine

6:59 pm on Mar 17, 2015 (gmt 0)

With .com turning 30-years old this week, there's no sign of it's popularity waning: If anything, it's growing stronger.

The first .com was registered way back on 15 March 1985.

Verisign's report into domains is worth a read, and is shows that there are more than 288 million domain registrations, with .com being by far the most popular with 115.6 million names.

There are some other interesting facts in there, including Belgium with the highest IPv6 adoption rate.

Here's a link to the Verisign PDF file. [verisigninc.com...]

Many happy returns, .com !

lucy24

8:28 pm on Mar 27, 2015 (gmt 0)

there were the "this site is best viewed in

It is not many weeks since I last saw one of those :(

After some hunting, I found a clutch of AOL page files in the OS 9 folder on my HD, datestamped December 1998 and January 1999. They may actually be a little older. That's from when they had the members.aol.com/yourname/ option.

Funny how my background preferences have changed over the years. Back then it was #99CCFF (<body BGCOLOR because css? wha dat?), a truly horrendous greenish blue. Bit by bit things got lighter; currently it varies between CDF and BCF. My last ebook was a restful F7F7FF, which "reads" as white in isolation.

RedBar

4:10 pm on Mar 28, 2015 (gmt 0)

It is not many weeks since I last saw one of those :(

I saw a brand new site only last week with it!

lucy24

8:11 pm on Mar 28, 2015 (gmt 0)

a brand new site

Either some CMS includes it in their boilerplate, or the site owner hired a cut-rate designer who got all their information from books purchased at garage sales.

toidi

11:21 am on Mar 29, 2015 (gmt 0)

a cut-rate designer

copy and paste is a short cut to bloated code.

you should see some of the code i have paid for over the years

timchuma

12:21 am on Apr 2, 2015 (gmt 0)

Australia Post issued a stamp in 1985 celebrating "Electronic Mail" I have the first day cover for it somewhere. My parents still have the telegram they received when I was born.

It is the 20th anniversary of starting my university degree this year and getting internet access.

ken_b

12:49 am on Apr 2, 2015 (gmt 0)

"this site is best viewed in

Not to far from the current version featuring a HUGE pop-up in the middle of the screen.

"we want you to have a good visit experience, please upgrade your browser" (or similar) that I'm seeing on a number of current newspaper sites.

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lucy24

5:49 am on Apr 2, 2015 (gmt 0)

It took some searching, but I was reminded of this earlier discussion:
[webmasterworld.com...]
("not-com" is a good term!)

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