Only 6 Domain names ?!?

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Wed Jan 12 16:46:27 2005

John wrote:
> Something's been bothering me since I read it.
> In the newspaper's el-cheapo weekend supplement*
> it stated that:
> Registered Internet Domain names, 2005: 63 million,
> which is believable, but then said
> Registered Internet Domain names, 1985: 6.
>
> This doesn't seem right. 200 I'd believe, but not 6.
> 20 companies and 60 Universities I'd believe, not 6.

The DNS spec (RFC 882 and 883) wasn't published until
November 1983, and it took a while for DNS to replace
the old hosts files. In 1985 there were still many
sites that weren't yet using DNS. Even so, 6 does
sound too low even for 1-Jan-1985.
Received on Wed Jan 12 2005 - 16:46:27 GMT