The company called Symbolics registered their domain name www.symbolics.com.
The business has since been sold to another company that is developing and perpetuating the product line but Symbolics has a unique distinction.
They were the first domain to ever have registered.
Here is a list of the first one hundred domain name registries.
Here are the first fourteen:
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
Boeing is #26, Fluke #32, Alcoa #40. A cool corporate legacy.
Hat tip to Jottings.
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