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Dotcom TLD Reaches 25th Anniversary

Dotcom TLD Reaches 25th Anniversary

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The Dotcom domain name will celebrate its 25th birthday today, as computer maker Symbolics was the first company in the world to adopt the domain name on 15th March 1985. Although its rise to popularity was slow, the Dotcom top level domain now registers 680,000 web sites every month. The same year in Symbolics adopted the web address, five other companies had decided to go with Dotcom, which was to register its millionth user in 1997, during the internet boom. The web...



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