Only 6 Domain names ?!?

[Jules Richardson]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 11:26 -0500, John Allain wrote:
> Something's been bothering me since I read it.
> In the newspaper's el-cheapo weekend supplement*
> it stated that:
>    Registered Internet Domain names, 2005: 63 million,
>       which is believable, but then said
>    Registered Internet Domain names, 1985: 6.

Are they confusing 6 registered names with 6 official top-level domains
or something along those lines? (my knowledge of the Internet prior to
the early 90's is pretty much non-existant, so that's a pure guess)

cheers

Jules