A History of Domain Name Extensions

[chris]

I came across this infographic visualising the history of domain extensions and thought members might find it interesting.

Source: http://www.domaininvesting.com/infographic-domain-extensions/

 

[findtim]

thanks, interesting, i was waiting for the crescendo where the infographic put them ALL together and resized the the circles in proportion of take up/registrations.

tim

 

[Simon Johnson]

Here we go again. More factually incorrect statements around the first domain name.
Symbolics was not the "worlds first domain name".

Here's a post I wrote 7 years ago.
http://www.domainerincome.com/news/oldest-domain-names-nordunet/

 

[petermeadit]

The trends are very interesting Chris.