via PC World
PC World published the list of the 100 oldest dot-com domains registered.
This first one was reserved on March 15, 1985 – symbolics.com.
Below the Top20:
- symbolics.com: March 15, 1985
- bbn.com: April 24, 1985
- think.com: May 24, 1985
- mcc.com: July 11, 1985
- dec.com: September 30, 1985
- northrop.com: November 7, 1985
- xerox.com: January 9, 1986
- sri.com: January 17, 1986
- hp.com: March 3, 1986
- bellcore.com: March 5, 1986
- ibm.com: March 19, 1986
- sun.com: March 19, 1986
- intel.com: March 25, 1986
- ti.com: March 25, 1986
- att.com: April 25, 1986
- gmr.com: May 8, 1986
- tek.com: May 8, 1986
- fmc.com: July 10, 1986
- ub.com: July 10, 1986
- bell-atl.com: August 5, 1986
Also interesting to notice that Microsoft first reserved its domain in May 1991, Yahoo in January 1995, and Google in September 1997!