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Viacom – The History of Domain Names

Viacom company buys Film.com May 21, 2012 NextMovie picks up Film.com. MTV Networks site NextMovie has acquired Film.com, the company announced last week. MTV Networks is part of publicly traded Viacom. This was not a domain name purchase; it was a full fledged web business. Film.com has a U.S. Quantcast rank of about 15,000. Still, […]

Vintcerf ICANN – The History of Domain Names

Vint Cerf was instrumental in the funding and formation of ICANN Date: 01/01/2010 Vinton Gray “Vint” Cerf is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of “the fathers of the Internet”, sharing this title with American computer scientist Bob Kahn. His contributions have been acknowledged and lauded, repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards […]

Vintoncerf Chairman – The History of Domain Names

Vinton Cerf became the Chairman of the ICANN board Date: 05/08/2011 Vint Cerf elected ICANN chairman.  The 57-year-old Internet pioneer was elected chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He assumed the one-year, unpaid position this week at ICANN’s annual meeting. On Thursday, Cerf was among the board members who unanimously […]

Vintoncerf – The History of Domain Names

Vinton Cerf was a program manager Date: 01/01/1984 Vint Cerf  – Widely known as a “Father of the Internet,” Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In 2004 both Cerf and Kahn won the A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for their “pioneering work on […]

Vistaprint – The History of Domain Names

Vistaprint Buys Webs.com Dec 19, 2011 Printing services giant Vistaprint announced on Monday that it had acquired web hosting provider Webs Inc. for $117.5 million, to be paid at closing through a combination of $100 million cash and $17.5 million in restricted shares. Webs, which has raised $12 million in funding from Novak Biddle Venture […]

WAIS – The History of Domain Names

Wide area information server (WAIS) Date: 01/01/1991 Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) is a client–server text searching system that uses the ANSI Standard Z39.50 Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol Specifications for Library Applications”  to search index databases on remote computers. It was developed in the late 1980s as a project of Thinking Machines, Apple […]

UUNET – The History of Domain Names

UUNET founded Date: 01/01/1987 UUNET, founded in 1987, was one of the largest Internet service providers and one of the early Tier 1 networks. It was based in Northern Virginia and was one of the first commercial Internet service providers. Today, UUNET is an internal brand of Verizon Business (formerly MCI). Company History: Founded in […]

VBNS – The History of Domain Names

Very high-speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS) Date: 01/01/1995 The very high-speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS) came on line in April 1995 as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored project to provide high-speed interconnection between NSF-sponsored supercomputing centers and select access points in the United States. The network was engineered and operated by MCI […]

Verisign Domainfees – The History of Domain Names

Verisign Announces Increase in .com/.net Domain Name FeesHello Jul 14, 2011 VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, today announced, effective Jan. 15, 2012, an increase in registry domain name fees for .com and .net, per its agreements with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers […]

Verisign Domaintraffic – The History of Domain Names

VeriSign Releases Domain Traffic Treasure Trove to the Public July 6, 2011 VeriSign has released VERISIGN Domain Score, to the public. The beta tool allows anyone to enter an unregistered domain name and get an idea of how much traffic the domain gets. DomainScore uses NXD data — basically visit requests to non existent domain […]

Verisign Mobileview – The History of Domain Names

VeriSign Gets Mobile with MobileView August 17, 2011 Last week at HostingCon I caught up with Patti Kelly, director of product management at Verisign, to discuss the launch of a new product that makes it easy for small businesses to create a mobile friendly version of their web site. VeriSign MobileView uses mobile detection and […]

US – The History of Domain Names

.us created Date: 04/01/2002 .us is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United States. It was established in 1985. Registrants of .us domains must be United States citizens, residents, or organizations, or a foreign entity with a presence in the United States. Most registrants in the country have registered for .com, .net, […]

UTC – The History of Domain Names

United Technologies Corporation – UTC.com was registered Date: 05/27/1987 On May 27, 1987, United Technologies Corporation registered the utc.com domain name, making it 76th .com domain ever to be registered. United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is an American multinational conglomerate headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut. It researches, develops, and manufactures high-technology products in numerous areas, including aircraft […]

UUCP – The History of Domain Names

UUCP and Usenet Date: 01/01/1979 Using UUCP and Usenet shows how to communicate with both UNIX and non-UNIX systems, using UUCP and cu or tip. It also shows how to read news, post your own articles, and mail to other Usenet members. In 1979, two students at Duke University, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, came up […]

Twitter – The History of Domain Names

Twitter – Microblogging Date: 01/01/2006 Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and read short 140-character messages called “tweets”. Registered users can post and read tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is […]

TxMod2 – The History of Domain Names

TX-2 Mod Top Developed late 1950’s had a 64k core memory The TX-2 was a transistor-based computer using the then-huge amount of 64K 36-bit words of core memory. The TX-2 became operational in 1958. Because of its then powerful capabilities Ivan Sutherland’s revolutionary Sketchpad program was developed for and ran on the TX-2. The MIT […]

Tymnet – The History of Domain Names

Tymnet packet-switched network Date: 01/01/1971 Tymnet was an international data communications network headquartered in Cupertino, California that used virtual call packet switched technology and X.25, SNA/SDLC, ASCII and BSC interfaces to connect host computers (servers) at thousands of large companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Users typically connected via dial-up connections or dedicated asynchronous connections. […]

UB – The History of Domain Names

Ungermann-Bass 1986 July 10th UB.com was registered Date: 07/10/1986 On May 8, 1986, Ungermann-Bass  became the 18th company to register their domain ub.com Ungermann-Bass, also known as UB and UB Networks, was a computer networking company in the 1980s to 1990s. Located in Santa Clara, California, in Silicon Valley, UB was the first large networking […]

Unisys – The History of Domain Names

Unisys Corporation – unisys.com was registered Date: 12/11/1986 On December 11, 1986, Unisys registered the unisys.com domain name, making it 49th .com domain ever to be registered. Unisys Corporation is an American global information technology company based in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, that provides a portfolio of IT services, software, and technology. Unisys Corporation is a […]

TLD – The History of Domain Names

Country Code Top Level Domains Date: 01/02/1981 Country Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) are two-letter Internet top-level domains (TLDs) specifically designated for a particular country, sovereign state or autonomous territory for use to service their community. ccTLDs are derived from ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes. A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain […]

Toad – The History of Domain Names

toad.com was registered Date: 08/18/1987 On August 18, 1987, John Gilmore registered the toad.com domain name, making it 84th .com domain ever to be registered. Gilmore owns the domain name toad.com, which is one of the 100 oldest active .com domains. It was registered on August 18, 1987. He runs the mail server at toad.com […]

Toys – The History of Domain Names

Toys.com auction for $5.1 million Date: 01/01/2009 Toys ‘R’ Us Buys Toys.com Domain Name for $5.1M Reauction of Toys.com goes for $5.1M. Toys ‘R’ Us will be purchasing the Toys.com domain name for $5.1M. The company outbid National A-1 Advertising in an auction that was live blogged on DirectNavigation.com. (DirectNavigation.com is written by Larry Fischer, […]

Transition – The History of Domain Names

Transition Towards the Internet Date: 01/01/1984 The term “internet” was adopted in the first RFC published on the TCP protocol (RFC 675: Internet Transmission Control Program, December 1974) as an abbreviation of the term internetworking and the two terms were used interchangeably. In general, an internet was any network using TCP/IP. It was around the […]