100 Oldest .COM domain names

an interesting little factoid: domains were free to register until 1995

My first domain was guetech.org, running over a UUCP link to eskimo.com, I remember having to fill out and email a text template to request it. I think this was sometime around 1995. I still have the domain :)<p>I think the absence of microsoft.com is telling. They really didn't see where the internet was heading.

the time span is interesting. a full ~2.5yrs for 100 domains to be registered.

No 'microsoft.com', but Apple registered their domain 'apple.com' in 1987.

I'm now intensely curious about what the oldest "popular" hostnames were before there was the DNS.<p>Also, what were FMC, Alcoa, and DuPoint doing with domain names?

I wish I was old enough and had a good understanding of domains during the 90's so that I could have bought myself a good domain.

My oldest is 1999. I read somewhere that google also uses that in there complex page rank and results page.