Posts Tagged ‘top-level domain name’
First .Com Domain Name Turns 25-Years-Old
It’s hard to believe that it’s been twenty-five years since the first .Com domain name was registered, but it’s true. Today, symbolics.com has turned a whopping twenty-five years old. Whilst the company behind the domain name is no longer in business, there’s no shortage of celebration over the milestone.
The domain name was registered on the 15th of March in 1985 — one of six domain names registered that year. Compare that to amount of domain names registered today, and you’ll quickly see the value in symbolics.com. In 1997, the amount of .com domain names registered topped one million. Fast forward thirteen years, and millions more have been registered.
So much so that individuals are having trouble registering domain names. Just ask anyone familiar with registering domain names, and you’ll likely be responded to with “everything’s taken.” More »
Arabic Top-Level Domain Name Registrations Begin
We’ve reported previously that non-English top-level domain names would soon be available — and today’s the start of registration for .masr [.مصر] domain names. The TLD will represent the country of Egypt, and literally translates to “.Egypt”.
“It is a great moment for us,” said Tarek Kamel, Egypt’s information technology officer at a conference Monday.
The registrations began at approximately 10 PM Greenwich Mean Time, and it is currently unknown how many of the .masr domains have been registered. What we do know, however, is that this opens up new doors for the approximately 300 million Arabic speakers of the world.