[ih] Domain Names

[Vint Cerf]

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.

v

On Jan 19, 2010, at 11:44 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:

> 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?
>
> Read more: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc597.html#ixzz0d7mcyuSC
>
> On 1/19/2010 8:21 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> RB
>>
>
> -- 
> Richard Bennett
> Research Fellow
> Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
> Washington, DC

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