Dotcom Celebrates its Silver Anniversary
March 16th, 2010 by Geoff
The internet celebrates a landmark event on the 15th March 2010, as it’s the 25th anniversary of the day the first dotcom domain was registered.
Back in March 1985, Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts entered the history books as the first internet address ending with dotcom. In that same year only a further five companies followed suit, and it wasn’t until 1997 when the real internet boom hit and the one millionth dotcom was registered.
“This birthday is really significant because what we are celebrating here is the internet and dotcom is a good, well known placeholder for the rest of the internet,” commented Mark Mclaughlin, CEO of Verisign, the company responsible for the looking after the dotcom domain.
Dotcom domains have become an integral part of our everyday life, many use these sites to shop, connect with friends, and book holidays to name just a few, and with more than 668,000 dotcom domains registered every month the internet is showing no signs of slowing down. The growth of dotcom over the past 25 years has been very significant, 21m domain names were registered between years 1985 and 2000, and this has more than doubled in the last 10 years, with 57m domain names being registered between 2000 and 2010.
Robert Atkinson of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) told BBC News, “It used to be, 10 years ago, you could live an ok life if you weren’t engaged on a dotcom site on a daily basis. You could get what you needed. But today we see how dotcoms have enriched our lives that if you are not engaged you would be fine but much further behind than the rest of us.”
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