It is hard to imagine the normal functioning of the network without the domain. The first of these was registered exactly 33 years ago, 15 Martha 1985 of the year. Today they are in the world more 330 millions.
Internet use is now more than 4 billion people, who have at their disposal more 330 million registered domains. It all began exactly 33 years ago, 15 Martha 1985 of the year. In honor of the anniversary, we decided to point out a few facts.
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It's no mystery, but first let us explain, что домен – это (very simplistic) Name of the site, that is something that is entered in the address bar, to get to a particular website. This domain is necessary to register.
What was the first Internet domain?
first domain nordu.net began in January 1985 of the year, but it was not officially registered. Therefore, the first actual domain is considered symbolics.com, which the 15 March of the same year was registered by the computer company Symbolics Computer Corporation of Cambridge.
Symbolics company for many years as there is no, it belonged to the domain 2009 of the year. Now he belongs to the company's XF, which it says that it is the old domain on the Internet.
Why do we need the domain names?
Similar to how we prescribe the names of each number in the phone book, Websites need to be recognizable names. Not hard to guess that this is done for the convenience of remembering. As an example, data search engine Google, that it will be easier to remember and type in the address bar "google.com" or "172.217.16.35"? The answer is unequivocal "google.com". Not hard to guess that by making the first and the second option you will fall on the same site.
Самый дорогой домен в мире – это…
site name is important - statistics show that users tend to visit the site again, whose name is easier to remember and at the same time covers a wide range of features and services. This clearly shows the ranking of the most expensive domains in the world, which looks like this (according to Wikipedia):
- Carinsurance.com – 49,7 million. dollars;
- Insurance.com – 35,6 million dollars;
- CavationRentals.com – 35 millions of dollars;
- PrivateJet.com – 30,18 million dollars;
- Internet.com – 18 millions of dollars;
- 360.with - 17 millions of dollars;
- Insure.com – 16 millions of dollars;
- Fund.com - ca.. 13-14 million dollars;
- Sex.com – 13 millions of dollars;
- Hotels.com – 11 millions of dollars.
From this it follows that for a good domain you need to fork out good.
How it all began?
Two American scientists 1984 was invented so-called DNS, or Domain Name System. They were geniuses Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris. They have developed a system of servers, through which user-friendly address is converted into a computer-readable string of numbers (ie IP-address).
As a result, 15 Martha 1985 , the first domain was registered, но это вы уже знаете…