Only 6 Domain names ?!?

[Computer Collector Newsletter]

Check out the "1985" section here:
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/


--- John Allain <allain at panix.com> 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.
> 
> This doesn't seem right.  200 I'd believe, but not 6.
> 20 companies and 60 Universities I'd believe, not 6.
> 
> I first saw the Internet in use in 1985, at Calma's research lab.
> Many people there used it all the time.  It seemed that they could
> get a lot of content.  Again I'd say 6 is B*S*.
> 
> Anybody know when it really was 6 and for extra credit what
> those original domain names were?
> 
> John A.
> * USA Weekend, 31-Dec-2004, p.7
> http://www.usaweekend.com/05_issues/050102/050102usaw_anniv_list.html
> 
> 


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