1985
The first Domain
In early 1985 DCA (Defense Communications Agency) transfers the responsibility of the management of DNS routing to Information Science Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California (USC). The responsibility for DNS-NIC registrations was given to the Stanford Research Institute.
After the responsibilities of the Domain Name System were given away, ARPA pushed for the use of DNS addresses. The run for the first domain names had started.
After the responsibilities of the Domain Name System were given away, ARPA pushed for the use of DNS addresses. The run for the first domain names had started.
Eventually, the computer manufacturer Symbolics Inc. from Cambridge, Massachusetts wins on March 15 by registering ”symbolics.com“ as the very first domain name ever. On April 24 runner-ups were “bbn.com“, “cmu.edu“, “purdue.edu“, “rice.edu“, “berkeley.edu“, “ucla.edu“ and “rutgers.edu“. During the next few months, many new registrations such as “mit.edu“, “think.com“, “css.gov“ and “mitre.org“ followed.
1985
Net
Facts
Facts
1985
Other
Events
Events
Seven of twelve EU countries sign the Schengen Agreement, which envisioned the abolishment of frontier barriers allowing unhindered and unchecked traffic.
At the East-West summit in Geneva Mikhail Gorbachev and Reagan negotiate the reduction of their nuclear warheads to 50%.
German scientists launch the new SPACELAB on board the Challenger shuttle into space.
Fiber optic cables are manufactured allowing the simultaneous transmission of 250.000 phone calls.