Editing Domain name (section)

===DNS history===
The first commercial Internet domain name, in the TLD ''com'', was registered on 15 March 1985 in the name [[symbolics.com]] by Symbolics Inc., a computer systems firm in Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schupak |first=Amanda |date=2015-03-13 |title=It's been 30 years since the first ".com" |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/com-domain-30-year-anniversary/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |work=CBS News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Abell |first=John C. |date=2010-03-15 |title=March 15, 1985: Dot-Com Revolution Starts With a Whimper |url=https://www.wired.com/2010/03/0315-symbolics-first-dotcom/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |magazine=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}</ref>

By 1992, fewer than 15,000 ''com'' domains had been registered.

In the first quarter of 2015, 294 million domain names had been registered.<ref name="investor.verisign.com">[https://investor.verisign.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=920138 Internet Grows to 294 Million Domain Names in the First Quarter of 2015] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171220175258/https://investor.verisign.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=920138 |date=2017-12-20 }}, Jun 30, 2015.</ref> A large fraction of them are in the ''com'' TLD, which as of December 21, 2014, had 115.6 million domain names,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=17231 |title=Thirty years of .COM domains - and the numbers are up |date=Mar 13, 2015 |publisher=Geekzone |access-date=Mar 25, 2016 |archive-date=April 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407025259/http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=17231 |url-status=live }}</ref> including 11.9 million online business and e-commerce sites, 4.3 million entertainment sites, 3.1 million finance related sites, and 1.8 million sports sites.<ref>Evangelista, Benny. 2010. "25 years of .com names." San Francisco Chronicle. March 15, p. 1</ref> As of July 15, 2012, the ''com'' TLD had more registrations than all of the ccTLDs combined.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/07/20/domain-domination-the-com-tld-larger-than-all-cctlds-combined/ |title=Domain domination: The ''com'' TLD larger than all ccTLDs combined |publisher=Royal.pingdom.com |access-date=2012-07-25 |archive-date=2012-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723235657/http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/07/20/domain-domination-the-com-tld-larger-than-all-cctlds-combined/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

{{as of|2023|12|31|post=,|df=US}} 359.8 million domain names had been registered.<ref>{{cite web |title=DNIB Quarterly Report Q4 2023 |url=https://dnib.com/articles/the-domain-name-industry-brief-q4-2023 |website=Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) |access-date=16 February 2024 |language=en}}</ref>