DOTCOM DOMAIN NAME TURNS 25

On March 15,2010 ,the Internet celebrated a landmark event  the 25^th anniversary of the day the dotcom domain name was registered .It was precisely  two and a half decades ago March 5,1985 that the first dotcom domain name Symbolics.com appeared on the Internet ,ushering in the commercial age of the World Wide Web (WWW).

Having a domain name made it simpler for the average person to access a website. With the birth of the dotcom domain, instead of having to remember a long series of numbers, one could simply type in IBM.com or BBC.com and access the site. The development was slow, initially. It took two years for the first 100 sites to go online. But from those humble beginnings, the Internet has grown to more than 80 million dotcom domain names today, according to the Information Technology &Innovation Foundation (ITIF).

Crunching the numbers, 99.9 percent to all Internet growth has occurred over the past 15 years. In this context, the ITIF report said, “The global diffusion of the commercial Internet has occurred with astounding speed”.