If you are launching your website you might be thinking about domain names. It is fascinating to look at which domains were first registered back in 1985, and what their potential value would be in today’s market place. Some of these domains would now be worth millions, but back in 1985 could be registered for just the cost of a phone-call!
A few highlights are apple.com registered in 1987, think.com in 1985, and Tandy.com in 1986 (who remembers them?). The overall cost of registering these in 1986 would have been around £20, and in todays market the estimate worth over all 100 would be well over £100m! If only we had a time-machine…….
| Rank | Registration Date | Domain Name |
| 1 | March 15, 1985 | Symbolics.com |
| 2 | April 24, 1985 | BBN.com |
| 3 | May 24, 1985 | Think.com |
| 4 | July 11, 1985 | MCC.com |
| 5 | September 30, 1985 | DEC.com |
| 6 | November 7, 1985 | Northrop.com |
| 7 | January 9, 1986 | Xerox.com |
| 8 | January 17, 1986 | SRI.com |
| 9 | March 3, 1986 | HP.com |
| 10 | March 5, 1986 | Bellcore.com |
| 11 | March 19, 1986 | IBM.com |
| 12 | March 19, 1986 | Sun.com |
| 13 | March 25, 1986 | Intel.com |
| 14 | March 25, 1986 | TI.com |
| 15 | April 25, 1986 | ATT.com |
| 16 | May 8, 1986 | GMR.com |
| 17 | May 8, 1986 | TEK.com |
| 18 | July 10, 1986 | FMC.com |
| 19 | July 10, 1986 | UB.com |
| 20 | August 5, 1986 | Bell-ATL.com |
| 21 | August 5, 1986 | GE.com |
| 22 | August 5, 1986 | Grebyn.com |
| 23 | August 5, 1986 | ISC.com |
| 24 | August 5, 1986 | NSC.com |
| 25 | August 5, 1986 | Stargate.com |
| 26 | September 2, 1986 | Boeing.com |
| 27 | September 18, 1986 | ITCorp.com |
| 28 | September 29, 1986 | Siemens.com |
| 29 | October 18, 1986 | Pyramid.com |
| 30 | October 27, 1986 | AlphaCDC.com |
| 31 | October 27, 1986 | BDM.com |
| 32 | October 27, 1986 | Fluke.com |
| 33 | October 27, 1986 | Inmet.com |
| 34 | October 27, 1986 | Kesmai.com |
| 35 | October 27, 1986 | Mentor.com |
| 36 | October 27, 1986 | NEC.com |
| 37 | October 27, 1986 | Ray.com |
| 38 | October 27, 1986 | Rosemount.com |
| 39 | October 27, 1986 | Vortex.com |
| 40 | November 5, 1986 | Alcoa.com |
| 41 | November 5, 1986 | GTE.com |
| 42 | November 17, 1986 | Adobe.com |
| 43 | November 17, 1986 | AMD.com |
| 44 | November 17, 1986 | DAS.com |
| 45 | November 17, 1986 | Data IO.com |
| 46 | November 17, 1986 | Octopus.com |
| 47 | November 17, 1986 | Portal.com |
| 48 | November 17, 1986 | Teltone.com |
| 49 | December 11, 1986 | 3Com.com |
| 50 | December 11, 1986 | Amdahl.com |
| 51 | December 11, 1986 | CCUR.com |
| 52 | December 11, 1986 | CI.com |
| 53 | December 11, 1986 | Convergent.com |
| 54 | December 11, 1986 | DG.com |
| 55 | December 11, 1986 | Peregrine.com |
| 56 | December 11, 1986 | Quad.com |
| 57 | December 11, 1986 | SQ.com |
| 58 | December 11, 1986 | Tandy.com |
| 59 | December 11, 1986 | TTI.com |
| 60 | December 11, 1986 | Unisys.com |
| 61 | January 19, 1987 | CGI.com |
| 62 | January 19, 1987 | CTS.com |
| 63 | January 19, 1987 | SPDCC.com |
| 64 | February 19, 1987 | Apple.com |
| 65 | March 4, 1987 | NMA.com |
| 66 | March 4, 1987 | Prime.com |
| 67 | April 4, 1987 | Philips.com |
| 68 | April 23, 1987 | Datacube.com |
| 69 | April 23, 1987 | Kai.com |
| 70 | April 23, 1987 | TIC.com |
| 71 | April 23, 1987 | Vine.com |
| 72 | April 30, 1987 | NCR.com |
| 73 | May 14, 1987 | Cisco.com |
| 74 | May 14, 1987 | RDL.com |
| 75 | May 20, 1987 | SLB.com |
| 76 | May 27, 1987 | ParcPlace.com |
| 77 | May 27, 1987 | UTC.com |
| 78 | June 26, 1987 | IDE.com |
| 79 | July 9, 1987 | TRW.com |
| 80 | July 13, 1987 | Unipress.com |
| 81 | July 27, 1987 | Dupont.com |
| 82 | July 27, 1987 | Lockheed.com |
| 83 | July 28, 1987 | Rosetta.com |
| 84 | August 18, 1987 | Toad.com |
| 85 | August 31, 1987 | Quick.com |
| 86 | September 3, 1987 | Allied.com |
| 87 | September 3, 1987 | DSC.com |
| 88 | September 3, 1987 | SCO.com |
| 89 | September 22, 1987 | Gene.com |
| 90 | September 22, 1987 | KCCS.com |
| 91 | September 22, 1987 | Spectra.com |
| 92 | September 22, 1987 | WLK.com |
| 93 | September 30, 1987 | Mentat.com |
| 94 | October 14, 1987 | WYSE.com |
| 95 | November 2, 1987 | CFG.com |
| 96 | November 9, 1987 | Marble.com |
| 97 | November 16, 1987 | Cayman.com |
| 98 | November 16, 1987 | Entity.com |
| 99 | November 24, 1987 | KSR.com |
| 100 | November 30, 1987 | NynexST.com |