100 Oldest Registered .COM Domains
Long before startups were fighting over short domains and premium names, the earliest .com registrations were already being claimed by research labs, tech companies, aerospace firms, and industrial giants.
This list is a snapshot of the first 100 .com domains registered in the early commercial internet era. It is less about nostalgia and more about seeing who got online early, and how heavily the first wave was shaped by enterprise technology, telecom, defense, and computing, much like other internet firsts from the web’s early years.
A few names are still instantly recognizable today, like IBM, Intel, Apple, Cisco, Adobe, and Xerox. Others feel like artifacts from another internet age.
What makes the list interesting is not just who came first, but how different the web looked before the browser era made domain names mainstream, closer to the era captured in websites we visit from 10 years ago.
The First 100 Registered .com Domains
| Rank | Create Date | Domain Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | 15-Mar-1985 | SYMBOLICS.COM |
| 2. | 24-Apr-1985 | BBN.COM |
| 3. | 24-May-1985 | THINK.COM |
| 4. | 11-Jul-1985 | MCC.COM |
| 5. | 30-Sep-1985 | DEC.COM |
| 6. | 07-Nov-1986 | NORTHROP.COM |
| 7. | 09-Jan-1986 | XEROX.COM |
| 8. | 17-Jan-1986 | SRI.COM |
| 9. | 03-Mar-1986 | HP.COM |
| 10. | 05-Mar-1986 | BELLCORE.COM |
| 11. | 19-Mar-1986 | IBM.COM |
| 11. | 19-Mar-1986 | SUN.COM |
| 13. | 25-Mar-1986 | INTEL.COM |
| 13. | 25-Mar-1986 | TI.COM |
| 15. | 25-Apr-1986 | ATT.COM |
| 16. | 08-May-1986 | GMR.COM |
| 16. | 08-May-1986 | TEK.COM |
| 18. | 10-Jul-1986 | FMC.COM |
| 18. | 10-Jul-1986 | UB.COM |
| 20. | 05-Aug-1986 | BELL-ATL.COM |
| 20. | 05-Aug-1986 | GE.COM |
| 20. | 05-Aug-1986 | GREBYN.COM |
| 20. | 05-Aug-1986 | ISC.COM |
| 20. | 05-Aug-1986 | NSC.COM |
| 20. | 05-Aug-1986 | STARGATE.COM |
| 26. | 02-Sep-1986 | BOEING.COM |
| 27. | 18-Sep-1986 | ITCORP.COM |
| 28. | 29-Sep-1986 | SIEMENS.COM |
| 29. | 18-Oct-1986 | PYRAMID.COM |
| 30. | 27-Oct-1986 | ALPHACDC.COM |
| 30. | 27-Oct-1986 | BDM.COM |
| 30. | 27-Oct-1986 | FLUKE.COM |
| 30. | 27-Oct-1986 | INMET.COM |
| 30. | 27-Oct-1986 | KESMAI.COM |
| 30. | 27-Oct-1986 | MENTOR.COM |
| 30. | 27-Oct-1986 | NEC.COM |
| 30. | 27-Oct-1986 | RAY.COM |
| 30. | 27-Oct-1986 | ROSEMOUNT.COM |
| 30. | 27-Oct-1986 | VORTEX.COM |
| 40. | 05-Nov-1986 | ALCOA.COM |
| 40. | 05-Nov-1986 | GTE.COM |
| 42. | 17-Nov-1986 | ADOBE.COM |
| 42. | 17-Nov-1986 | AMD.COM |
| 42. | 17-Nov-1986 | DAS.COM |
| 42. | 17-Nov-1986 | DATA-IO.COM |
| 42. | 17-Nov-1986 | OCTOPUS.COM |
| 42. | 17-Nov-1986 | PORTAL.COM |
| 42. | 17-Nov-1986 | TELTONE.COM |
| 42. | 11-Dec-1986 | 3COM.COM |
| 50. | 11-Dec-1986 | AMDAHL.COM |
| 50. | 11-Dec-1986 | CCUR.COM |
| 50. | 11-Dec-1986 | CI.COM |
| 50. | 11-Dec-1986 | CONVERGENT.COM |
| 50. | 11-Dec-1986 | DG.COM |
| 50. | 11-Dec-1986 | PEREGRINE.COM |
| 50. | 11-Dec-1986 | QUAD.COM |
| 50. | 11-Dec-1986 | SQ.COM |
| 50. | 11-Dec-1986 | TANDY.COM |
| 50. | 11-Dec-1986 | TTI.COM |
| 50. | 11-Dec-1986 | UNISYS.COM |
| 61. | 19-Jan-1987 | CGI.COM |
| 61. | 19-Jan-1987 | CTS.COM |
| 61. | 19-Jan-1987 | SPDCC.COM |
| 64. | 19-Feb-1987 | APPLE.COM |
| 65. | 04-Mar-1987 | NMA.COM |
| 65. | 04-Mar-1987 | PRIME.COM |
| 67. | 04-Apr-1987 | PHILIPS.COM |
| 68. | 23-Apr-1987 | DATACUBE.COM |
| 68. | 23-Apr-1987 | KAI.COM |
| 68. | 23-Apr-1987 | TIC.COM |
| 68. | 23-Apr-1987 | VINE.COM |
| 72. | 30-Apr-1987 | NCR.COM |
| 73. | 14-May-1987 | CISCO.COM |
| 73. | 14-May-1987 | RDL.COM |
| 75. | 20-May-1987 | SLB.COM |
| 76. | 27-May-1987 | PARCPLACE.COM |
| 76. | 27-May-1987 | UTC.COM |
| 78. | 26-Jun-1987 | IDE.COM |
| 79. | 09-Jul-1987 | TRW.COM |
| 80. | 13-Jul-1987 | UNIPRESS.COM |
| 81. | 27-Jul-1987 | DUPONT.COM |
| 81. | 27-Jul-1987 | LOCKHEED.COM |
| 83. | 28-Jul-1987 | ROSETTA.COM |
| 84. | 18-Aug-1987 | TOAD.COM |
| 85. | 31-Aug-1987 | QUICK.COM |
| 86. | 03-Sep-1987 | ALLIED.COM |
| 86. | 03-Sep-1987 | DSC.COM |
| 86. | 03-Sep-1987 | SCO.COM |
| 89. | 22-Sep-1987 | GENE.COM |
| 89. | 22-Sep-1987 | KCCS.COM |
| 89. | 22-Sep-1987 | SPECTRA.COM |
| 89. | 22-Sep-1987 | WLK.COM |
| 93. | 30-Sep-1987 | MENTAT.COM |
| 94. | 14-Oct-1987 | WYSE.COM |
| 95. | 02-Nov-1987 | CFG.COM |
| 96. | 09-Nov-1987 | MARBLE.COM |
| 97. | 16-Nov-1987 | CAYMAN.COM |
| 97. | 16-Nov-1987 | ENTITY.COM |
| 99. | 24-Nov-1987 | KSR.COM |
| 100. | 30-Nov-1987 | NYNEXST.COM |
The earliest .com registrations tell a simple story: the commercial internet did not begin with media brands, creators, or app startups. It started with institutions that already had money, infrastructure, and a reason to be online early.
Old domain lists like this are revealing because they show who moved first when the web was still mostly infrastructure, part of the same internet memory lane many early-web posts point back to.