<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">host names were registered with SRI NIC. I think Jon Postel may have been at SRI at the time and managed this but the NIC was run by Jake Feinler so she would be a good reference.<div><br></div><div>v</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 19, 2010, at 11:44 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> To be more specific, RFC 597 says: "Note: The names listed on this map are unofficial IMP names, NOT official Host names." Who assigned Official Host Names, and what did they look like?<br> <div id="TixyyLink" style="border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br> Read more: <a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc597.html#ixzz0d7mcyuSC">http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc597.html#ixzz0d7mcyuSC</a><br> </div> <br> On 1/19/2010 8:21 PM, Richard Bennett wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4B5684B7.50209@bennett.com" type="cite">We're coming up on the 25th anniversary of the first domain name registration, that of symbolics.com on March 15, 1985. Not the first domain name created, but the first one registered in the fledgling domain name system. Since I'm too old to remember that era, I'm wondering if anybody has any salient observations about what the Internet was like before the domain name system was created. How did people keep track of everything? <br> <br> I seem to remember a cumbersome system of bang addresses for e-mail that apparently arose out of UUCP, but wasn't there a more elegant system of naming for ARPANET and the fledgling Internet before 1985? I have the feeliing that there will be some events to commemorate the rise of the Dot Com era, and it would be nice if some of the facts were more or less in order. <br> <br> Thanks, <br> <br> RB <br> <br> </blockquote> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Richard Bennett
Research Fellow
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Washington, DC</pre> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>