8 of the 10 oldest domains can be tied to lisp... and to keven bacon...<p>1. symbolics.com: made Lisp machines <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics</a><p>2. bbn.com: BBN made BBN Lisp for the PDP-1: <a href="http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/index.html#BBN_LISP_" rel="nofollow">http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/index.html...</a><p>3. think.com: homepage of Thinking Machines Incorporated, the company that made <i>lisp <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Lisp" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Lisp</a><p>4. ...<p>5. dec.com: Digital Equipment Corporation (which got bought by compaq, which was bought by HP) made PDP microcomputers. The first interactive lisp was implemented on the PDP-1 in 1963 by Peter Deutsch <a href="http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/node5.html" rel="nofollow">http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/node5.html</a><p>6. northrop.com: northrop is still using lisp <a href="http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2005/speakers.html#rusty_johnson" rel="nofollow">http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2005/speakers.h...</a><p>7. xerox.com: xerox made the Xerox Lisp Machines <a href="http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/lisp/" rel="nofollow">http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/lisp/</a><p>8. sri.com: SRI is still using lisp <a href="http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/it_management/sri.php3" rel="nofollow">http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/it_management/sri...</a><p>9. hp.com: HP can be tied to lisp... but more strongly to keven bacon... <a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/90/HPL-90-213.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/90/HPL-90-213.html</a><p>10. ...
"Some companies," I told Jane Hulbert, "are even registering the names of their competitors."<p><a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/mcdonalds.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/mcdonalds.html</a>
<a href="http://symbolics.com/" rel="nofollow">http://symbolics.com/</a> doesn't look like it's been updated too much since then either.<p>Here it is from 98, no divs, no doc-type: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19981207002851/stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com/www/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/19981207002851/stony-brook.scrc.s...</a>
Interesting bit of trivia: nobody can ever have example.com, example.net, or example.org because it's a reserved domain for the RFC. Check it out at www.example.com.
Were there any restrictions on what you could register? (i.e. only domains related to your company)<p>I'd have thought people would have registered generic words first...