As someone interested in
DNS and
Internet history, I've always been enjoying facts and articles about early registered domain names. Wikipedia has a
page on the subject, but the list is extremely short for .net and .org domains.
Using the
DDN NIC domain summaries, it shouldn't be too difficult to extract a list of domains,
perform whois queries to get registration dates, and sort the results. Let's find out.
For the record, the oldest issue I could find, dating from December 1987, doesn't list nordu.net, the first .net domain ever registered. So I opted for the
August 1995 edition to be on the safe side. While I could also find an issue from 1996, there are a lot more domains listed so the whois lookups would take a lot more time, for no evident benefit.
