This Tuesday the domain name symbolics.com will be 26-years-old.
While news of the anniversary isn’t frontpage this week, last year at this time, symbolics.com was celebrating its 25th birthday and was the subject of much discussion. News outlets ranging from Wired to BBC covered the story. To commemorate the anniversary, Verisign even set up a website (http://www.25yearsof.com/) and threw a .com gala event in San Francisco in May that celebrated the impact 25 years of Internet innovation had on society.
XF.com Investments
In 2009, XF.com Investments, a domain holding and development company run by Aron Meystedt purchased the domain, making the milestone even more exciting for the domain name community.
Aron has a track record of acquiring some amazing domains.
In late 2010, XF acquired tablets.com for an undisclosed amount. Tablets.com is well positioned to become one of the most valuable domain names in 2011. Over the weekend, Apple reportedly sold nearly one million iPad 2 tablets. “Gartner research reported this week that tablet sales will grow from 15 million in 2010 to 54 million in 2011 and that laptop sales will slow down dramatically”, reported CNET.
More Birthdays
Since last March, a number of other .com domains have celebrated their 25th anniversary including: bbn.com, think.com, mcc.com, dec.com, northrop.com, xerox.com, sri.com, hp.com, and bellcore.com.
More domain names will celebrate their 25th birthday this year. Here’s a look:
03/19/1986 IBM.COM
03/19/1986 SUN.COM
03/25/1986 INTEL.COM
03/25/1986 TI.COM
04/25/1986 ATT.COM
05/08/1986 GMR.COM
05/08/1986 TEK.COM
07/10/1986 FMC.COM
07/10/1986 UB.COM
08/05/1986 BELL-ATL.COM
08/05/1986 GE.COM
08/05/1986 GREBYN.COM
08/05/1986 ISC.COM
08/05/1986 NSC.COM
08/05/1986 STARGATE.COM
09/02/1986 BOEING.COM
09/18/1986 ITCORP.COM
09/29/1986 SIEMENS.COM
10/18/1986 PYRAMID.COM
10/27/1986 ALPHACDC.COM
10/27/1986 BDM.COM
10/27/1986 FLUKE.COM
10/27/1986 INMET.COM
10/27/1986 KESMAI.COM
10/27/1986 MENTOR.COM
10/27/1986 NEC.COM
10/27/1986 RAY.COM
10/27/1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM
10/27/1986 VORTEX.COM
11/05/1986 ALCOA.COM
11/05/1986 GTE.COM
11/17/1986 ADOBE.COM
11/17/1986 AMD.COM
11/17/1986 DAS.COM
11/17/1986 DATA-IO.COM
11/17/1986 OCTOPUS.COM
11/17/1986 PORTAL.COM
11/17/1986 TELTONE.COM
12/11/1986 3COM.COM
12/11/1986 AMDAHL.COM
12/11/1986 CCUR.COM
12/11/1986 CI.COM
12/11/1986 CONVERGENT.COM
12/11/1986 DG.COM
12/11/1986 PEREGRINE.COM
12/11/1986 QUAD.COM
12/11/1986 SQ.COM
12/11/1986 TANDY.COM
12/11/1986 TTI.COM
12/11/1986 UNISYS.COM