Lessons Learned From The Internet’s First Domain Names

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Co-Founder of Saw.com, Jeffrey Gabriel, is featured on Forbes, and this time, he goes over the first ten domains ever registered and what we can learn from them. Jeffrey discusses their values and covers what makes them valuable. It is easy to look back as hindsight is 20/20, but it is interesting to see what names were registered first.
A special thanks to DomainIQ.com and Estibot for supplying the data for this article.
Here it is:
March 15, 1985: Symbolics.com
April 14, 1985: BBN.com
May 24, 1985: Think.com
July 11, 1985: MCC.com
September 30, 1985: DEC.com
November 7, 1985: Northrop.com
January 9, 1986: Xerox.com
January 17, 1986: SRI.com
March 3, 1986: HP.com
March 5, 1986: BellCore.com
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Jeffrey Gabriel

Founder & CEO of Saw.com, is a renowned domain broker with over $500M in sales, including record-breaking deals like Sex.com and Ai.com. In 2019, he left his dream job to start his own company, sharing insights and inspiring others to push their limits through candid conversations with industry leaders.


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