Week 438 was posted by Charanjit Chana on 2026-03-19.
I knew that the creation of the world-wide-web was around the late-80s but didn't actually know that domain names proceeded that by half a decade at least. This timeline on the history of domains over on dotcom.press is worth a scroll. I really didn't know that domain names were invited in 1983.
I had read sex.com by Kieren McCarthy nearly 20 years ago on the battle of that specific domain and it touched on some of the points in the history of domains with how informal the whole thing was in the normal days.
Just from my own point of view, these are the TLDs I've owned over the years:
- .co.uk
- .com
- .in
- .it
- .dev
- .me
- .pm
- .club
- .io
Of those, I still have 5 different TLDs active.
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