Comments on: The First Domain Ever Registered Was Symbolics.com http://hightechhistory.com/2009/10/19/the-first-domain-ever-registered-is-symbolics-com/ A weblog exploring computer technology, digital history and early high-tech Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Harri Rautiainen http://hightechhistory.com/2009/10/19/the-first-domain-ever-registered-is-symbolics-com/#comment-63 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:02:00 +0000 http://hightechhistory.com/?p=274#comment-63 Dear Carole,

I re-read your post more carefully.
You are right: there is a difference between creating domain names and registering them.

sorry for the confusion,
~Harri

]]> By: Harri Rautiainen http://hightechhistory.com/2009/10/19/the-first-domain-ever-registered-is-symbolics-com/#comment-62 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:48:52 +0000 http://hightechhistory.com/?p=274#comment-62 Dear Carole,
thanks for maintaining your blog and for writing very interesting blog articles.

Your articles are hitting home very effectively. I worked for DEC 1974-1985 most of the time in Maynard, Mass. From 1986 I was with Symbolics in Cambridge.

You write that Symbolics.com was the first domain name ever registered. To be really accurate Symbolics.com was the first .COM domain name. There were others before, I believe .EDU?

Anyway I am very proud of my time at Symbolics and also with Digital Equipment. DEC had “the honor” of sending the first spam message in the Internet. That was about announcing VAX 11/750.

thanks and regards,
Harri Rautiainen
http://saxontheweb.blogspot.com/2009/05/one-div-zero-brief-incomplete-and.html

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