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Youtube – The History of Domain Names

YouTube – Video sharing Date: 01/01/2005 YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. YouTube now operates as one of […]

YU – The History of Domain Names

The previous code for Yugoslavia, YU, was removed, but the yu ccTLD remained. After a two-year transition to Serbian rs and Montenegrin me, the .yu domain was phased out Date: 03/01/2010 The previous code for Yugoslavia, YU, was removed on 2003, but the yu ccTLD remained in operation. Finally, after a two-year transition to Serbian […]

Zooz – The History of Domain Names

Zooz uses 1% of its funding to buy Zooz.com January 4, 2012 Zooz spends 1% of its recent funding round on a domain name and other interesting domain name purchases. It’s time for the weekly roundup of end user domain name purchases. Let’s start with in-app mobile payments startup Zooz. The company snagged $1.5 million […]

Zynga – The History of Domain Names

Zynga acquires Chefville.com domain name July 18, 2012 Zynga pockets key domain name for new game. Last month social gaming company Chefville announced its newest games including Chefville. But it didn’t have the Chefville.com domain name — until now. Chefville.com was registered back in January 2006. Its current owner, an individual in California, appears to […]

Wyse – The History of Domain Names

Wyse Technology – WYSE.com was registered Date: 10/14/1987 On October 14, 1987, Wyse Technology registered the wyse.com domain name, making it 94th .com domain ever to be registered. Wyse is a manufacturer of cloud computing systems. They are best known for their video terminal line introduced in the 1980s, which competed with the market leading […]

x25 – The History of Domain Names

X.25 and public data networks Date: 01/01/1974 X.25 is an ITU-T standard protocol suite for packet switched wide area network (WAN) communication. An X.25 WAN consists of packet-switching exchange (PSE) nodes as the networking hardware, and leased lines, plain old telephone service connections, or ISDN connections as physical links. X.25 is a family of protocols […]

X25protocol – The History of Domain Names

X.25 protocol approved Date: 01/01/1976 X.25 A packet-switching protocol for wide area network (WAN) connectivity that uses a public data network (PDN) that parallels the voice network of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). The current X.25 standard supports synchronous, full-duplex communication at speeds up to 2 Mbps over two pairs of wires, but most […]

Xerox – The History of Domain Names

xerox.com was registered Date: 01/09/1986 Xerox managed to register xerox.com on 09-Jan-1986 and became the 7th domain name. Xerox Corporation is an American global corporation that sells business services and document technology products. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut (moved from Stamford, Connecticut in October 2007), though its largest population of employees is based around […]

XXX – The History of Domain Names

.XXX Plans to Spend $15 Million in First Year Promoting New Domain to Web Users August 16, 2011 With the first .xxx domain names from the “Founder’s” program coming online and the trademark sunrise period soon to get underway, .XXX backer ICM Registry has some very ambitious marketing plans. I caught up with ICM Registry […]

XXXTLD – The History of Domain Names

.xxx TLD received initial approval from the ICANN Date: 06/01/2010 XXX top level domain gets initial approval ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has given initial approval for a .xxx top-level domain. Should the initial approval become final approval, you’ll be able to register URLs. ICANN, for its part, wasn’t sure it […]

Yahoo – The History of Domain Names

Yahoo Founded Date: 01/01/1994 Yahoo Inc. (also known simply as Yahoo!, styled as YAHOO!) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in […]

Wikipedia – The History of Domain Names

Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Date: 01/01/2001 Wikipedia  is a free online encyclopedia that, by default, allows its users to edit any article. Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet and is ranked among the ten most popular websites. Wikipedia is owned by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia was launched […]

Worldwideweb – The History of Domain Names

World Wide Web Date: 01/01/1990 In 1990, the Internet exploded into commercial society and was followed a year later by the release of the WorldWide Web by originator Tim Berners-Lee and CERN. The same year the first commercial service provider began operating and domain registration officially entered the public domain. 1990 Singapore developed TECHNET in […]

WWW Concept – The History of Domain Names

The World Wide Network Concept Date: 01/01/1982 In 1982 the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) was standardized and the concept of a world-wide network of fully interconnected TCP/IP networkscalled the Internet was introduced. Access to the ARPANET was expanded in 1981when the National Science Foundation (NSF) developed the Computer Science Network (CSNET) and again in 1986 […]

WWW Logo – The History of Domain Names

WWW Logo by Robert Cailliau Date: 01/01/1993 The name Robert Cailliau may not ring a bell to the general public, but his invention is the reason why you are reading this: Dr. Cailliau together with his colleague Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, making the internet accessible so it could grow from an […]

WWW Released – The History of Domain Names

The World Wide Web is released (www.) Date: 01/01/1991 Web history – CERN open sourced World Wide Web today in 1993 On April 30, 1993, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, released World Wide Web into the public domain. CERN issued a statement putting the Web into the public domain, ensuring that it would […]

Warnerbros – The History of Domain Names

Warner Bros buys Injustice.com for $7500 – a new online game? May 24, 2012 Movie studio buys domain Injustice.com — for a new online game or movie? Movie studio Warner Bros. has purchased the domain name Injustice.com for $7,500 through Afternic. This is one of those domains with many uses, but that the owner must […]

Web Dotcom – The History of Domain Names

Web.com Plans .Web Top Level Domain October 24, 2011 Web.com plans to apply for the .web top level domain name and says no one else should be allowed to apply for the TLD due to its trademarks. The company has a pre-reservation form up on its web site and just filed a trademark application for […]

Webcrawler – The History of Domain Names

WebCrawler introduced Date: 01/01/1994 WebCrawler is a metasearch engine that blends the top search results from Google Search and Yahoo! Search. WebCrawler also provides users the option to search for images, audio, video, news, yellow pages and white pages. WebCrawler is a registered trademark of InfoSpace, Inc. It went live on April 20, 1994 and […]

WesleyClark – The History of Domain Names

Wesley A Clark developed LINC computers and helped plan some of the ideas behind the ARPANET Date: 01/01/2002 Wesley Allison Clark (April 10, 1927 – February 22, 2016) was an American physicist who is credited for designing the first modern personal computer. He was also a computer designer and the main participant, along with Charles […]

Wheelsup – The History of Domain Names

WheelsUp.com sold to Marquis Jet March 30, 2012 Marquis Jet founder bought domain for new investment firm, later shuns $500k offer. Owen Frager and Elliot Silver recently discovered that Marquis Jet was somehow related to the buyer of WheelsUp.com, a domain Frank Schilling sold last year. Now we know the exact relationship. Marquis Jet founder […]

WHOIS – The History of Domain Names

WHOIS Date: 01/01/2001 Whois is a TCP-based query/response protocol which is widely used for querying a database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet. Whois (pronounced as the phrase Who is) represents a protocol that is mainly used to used to […]

Wikimedia – The History of Domain Names

Wikimedia wins dispute over web hosting comparison site. August 3, 2011 Wikimedia wins dispute over web hosting comparison site. Wikipedia owner Wikimedia Foundation Inc. has won a case against the owner of WebhostingWikipedia.com, which will be transferred to Wikimedia as a result. From reading the case decision, it’s fairly clear the owner of the web […]

Verisign – The History of Domain Names

Verisign, the operator of net after acquiring Network Solutions, automatically renewed for another six years due to an clause in the contract with ICANN Date: 06/30/2011 Verisign, the operator of net after acquiring Network Solutions, held an operations contract that expired on 30 June 2005. ICANN, the organization responsible for domain management, sought proposals from […]

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, […]