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| In 1993, NSF and NSI entered a five-year cooperative agreement appointing NSI as the sole provider of domain name registrations for .com, .net and .org gTLDs.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20010301153634/http://networksolutions.com/en_US/legal/internic/cooperative-agreement/agreement.html NSI-NSF Cooperative Agreement]</ref> In 2000, Network Solutions was acquired by [[Verisign]] <ref>[http://about-networksolutions.com/corporate-history.php Network Solutions History]</ref> and retained the registry business NSI. Verisign is the curent | | In 1993, NSF and NSI entered a five-year cooperative agreement appointing NSI as the sole provider of domain name registrations for .com, .net and .org gTLDs.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20010301153634/http://networksolutions.com/en_US/legal/internic/cooperative-agreement/agreement.html NSI-NSF Cooperative Agreement]</ref> In 2000, Network Solutions was acquired by [[Verisign]] <ref>[http://about-networksolutions.com/corporate-history.php Network Solutions History]</ref> and retained the registry business NSI. Verisign is the curent |
| registry operator of the .com gTLD.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agreements/com/ .com Registry Agreement]</ref> | | registry operator of the .com gTLD.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agreements/com/ .com Registry Agreement]</ref> |
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− | ==List of Earliest Registered .Com Domain Names==
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− | The first or oldest .com domains include:<ref>[http://www.iwhois.com/oldest/ Whois oldest .com domains]</ref>
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− | * Symbolics.com- March 15, 1995
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− | * BBN.com- April 24, 1985
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− | * Think.com-May 24, 1985
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− | * MCC.com- July 11, 1985
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− | * DEC.com- September 30, 1985
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− | * Northrop.com- May 24, 1985
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− | * Xerox.com- Jan. 9, 1986
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− | * SRI.com- Jan. 17, 1986
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− | * HP.com- May 3, 1986
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− | * Bellcore.com- March 5, 1986
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− | * IBM.com- March 19, 1986
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− | * Sun.com- March 19, 1986
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− | * Intel.com- March 25, 1986
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− | * TI.com- March 25, 1986
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− | * ATT.com- April 25, 1986
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− | * GMR.com- May 8, 1986
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− | * TEK.com- May 8, 1986
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− | * FMC.com- July 10, 1986
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− | * UB.com- July 10, 1986
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− | * Bell-ATL.com- August 5, 1986
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− | * GE.com- August 5, 1986
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| ==.COM Controversies== | | ==.COM Controversies== |