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Re:Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs by everdev on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @01:38PM (#17402577)
Funny that the 20th domain ever registered had a hyphen in it (bell-atl.com). They probably thought it would be easier to read than bellatl.com or bellatlantic.com
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Re:Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs by johnchristopher on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @02:40PM (#17403023)
Maybe they saw domains as variables: don't use more than 8 characters ?
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Re:Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs by glenneroo on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @02:43PM (#17403050)
or MS-DOS 8.3 filenames ?
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