{"id":1928,"date":"2026-03-15T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:19:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:19:50","slug":"first-internet-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/first-internet-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Business History: Word’s First Internet Domain Is Registered"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 15, 1985:\u00a0 The world’s first internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corporation of Massachusetts. The international private non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers<\/a>\u00a0 was created in 1998 to maintain domain name coordination; there are now\u00a0 over 1 billion domains in existence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Signposts in cyberspace the Domain Name System and internet navigation<\/a>, available as an ebook<\/span><\/p>\n

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Governance, regulations and powers on the Internet<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>HM851 .G68 2012<\/p>\n

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Sources:\u00a0https:\/\/www.icann.org\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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