In what year was the first .com domain name, symbolics.com, registered?
AnswerMarch 15, 1985
It went to Symbolics Inc., a computer maker in Massachusetts.
Source: EDN (2019) edn.com
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Which country-code domain had the most registrations as of mid-2026?
Answer.cn
The top 10 were .cn, .de, .uk, .ru, .nl, .br, .fr, .au, .in and .eu. Country-code domains totaled 148.6 million.
Source: Verisign, Domain Name Industry Brief (Q2 2026) investor.verisign.com
How many new .com and .net registrations were made in the second quarter of 2026?
Answer12.7 million
That's up from 10.4 million in the same quarter of 2025 — well over 100,000 new names a day.
Source: Verisign, Domain Name Industry Brief (Q2 2026) investor.verisign.com
Expert level
Including symbolics.com, how many .com domains were registered in all of 1985?
Answer6
The other five were bbn.com, think.com, mcc.com, dec.com and northrop.com. IBM, Sun and Intel followed in 1986.
Source: EDN (2019) edn.com
Tuvalu owns the .tv domain. Under its old contract, about how much did .tv earn the country per year?
Answer$5 million per year
That was about 1/12 of the tiny nation's annual income. A newer deal was estimated to bring in about $10 million a year.
Source: The World (PRX) (2022) theworld.org
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