Aron Meystedt | ValidatorAI.com | Symbolics.com

front door to early stage founders.
Owner of the first .com ever registered on the Internet: ideas, collecting, domains.

[Aron Meystedt | ValidatorAI.com | Symbolics.com @FirstDomain]

@BillSweetman @NameNinja @akothari @NotionHQ great job Bill!

[Aron Meystedt | ValidatorAI.com | Symbolics.com @FirstDomain]

@akothari @NotionHQ @ivan love a good domain story (hence https://t.co/1YEAoRy1O9 ) :D

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@LibOrNormal

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Great article about the early days of domain names by @MakeTechEasier

Check it out here:
https://t.co/n7zquNmsNE

Covers the history of domains, the growth of the space and more. Interesting.

@DomainNameWire
@DInvesting

#domains
#domainnames
@GoDaddy

[Aron Meystedt | ValidatorAI.com | Symbolics.com @FirstDomain]

@fmercaldo @AGreatDomain @ValidatorAIapp very kind of you fred. I am still trying to figure it all out myself ;)

[Aron Meystedt | ValidatorAI.com | Symbolics.com @FirstDomain]

@AGreatDomain @ValidatorAIapp trying to analyze more and add more. it's interesting to see trends and behaviors of people exploring ideas.

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@tmaxftw @MichaelDeA39554 i believe it has as well.
bidding wars are over.
houses sold quickly during construction are over.
Seems the money flow has greatly slowed.
prices are still high though

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@ManCave72 Id like to subscribe to your newsletter kind sir

[Unstoppable Domains @unstoppableweb]

In 1985, only 6 .com domains existed in the world.

The first was https://t.co/Mgcf1mMlpA, registered March 15, 1985 by a Cambridge AI hardware company spun out of MIT's AI Lab.

Registration meant FTPing a plain-text template from SRI-NIC, filling it out and emailing it to [email protected]. A human reviewed it. Approval took days or weeks.

The other five that year were: https://t.co/5heZFYFO5D, https://t.co/kSpRVwjvMJ, https://t.co/k4PTkdRte1, https://t.co/9omNWVmdyq and https://t.co/lMvo003ixl.

Symbolics, Inc. went bankrupt in 1996, they held onto the domain.

In 2009, @FirstDomain (Aron Meystedt) acquired it. Not to flip, not to park, but to preserve it as a digital museum.

41 years later, https://t.co/Mgcf1mMlpA is still resolving. The first commercial domain on the internet still points somewhere.

[Aron Meystedt | ValidatorAI.com | Symbolics.com @FirstDomain]

@DomainerDaily agree. 100% yes

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@djkabzx @AGreatDomain we'll see

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https://t.co/G9aMvr7hAi shut down two weeks ago.

But the domain nerd in me thinks https://t.co/G9aMvr7hAi is one of the
most valuable domain names on the Internet.

https://t.co/G9aMvr7hAi has 10 million backlinks
A domain rating of 82/100
And 'Ask' is such a monster word for the AI era.

Also, it has incredible history.

What is https://t.co/G9aMvr7hAi worth?

$10,000,000 ?
$20,000,000 ?

more?

Thoughts?

#domains #domainnames

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@dnlaunch @merksandmais thats awesome!

[Aron Meystedt | ValidatorAI.com | Symbolics.com @FirstDomain]

@fulcrumtheory quite possibly. this is a major major sale.

[Aron Meystedt | ValidatorAI.com | Symbolics.com @FirstDomain]

@doronvermaat thanks!

[Aron Meystedt | ValidatorAI.com | Symbolics.com @FirstDomain]

@Varun_Goyal I agree. it's such a huge name with history

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@doronvermaat was there an announcement? thanks for the info. I must have missed it.

[Aron Meystedt | ValidatorAI.com | Symbolics.com @FirstDomain]

@Angler180756 It's a monster name for sure. I am eager to see how it goes.

[Aron Meystedt | ValidatorAI.com | Symbolics.com @FirstDomain]

@DomainExpe621 it's got MAJOR value, thats for sure