{"id":429556,"date":"2010-03-15T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/?p=105820"},"modified":"2010-03-15T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T16:30:22","slug":"happy-anniversary-25-years-of-dot-coms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/429556","title":{"rendered":"Happy Anniversary: 25 Years of Dot-coms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"dotcom\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/dotcom.jpg?w=210&#038;h=120\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-105836\" \/>It <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8567414.stm\">was 25 years ago<\/a> today when the first dot-com was registered &#8212; Cambridge, Masssa.-based Symbolics computers. Over the years, dot-coms became symbolic of both the Internet bubble and bust; now they&#8217;re simply part of our everyday lives. More than 650,000 dot-com domains are registered every month; current estimates put the total number at over 71 million.<\/p>\n<p>I remember signing up for my first domain in 1994, a whole nine years after the first dot-com domain was registered. It was quite an antiquated process &#8212; it took a whole lot of faxing to get it done. (I&#8217;m sure many of today&#8217;s young entrepreneurs have no idea what I&#8217;m talking about.) Even back then I had a tough time picking up my most wanted domain: <em>Om.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related on GigaOM Pr<\/strong>o: <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2010\/03\/did-we-really-learn-anything-from-the-dotcom-crash\/\">Did we really learn anything from the dot-com crash.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=105820&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=qYgMHy6ny-M:T0_STOxMna4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=qYgMHy6ny-M:T0_STOxMna4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=qYgMHy6ny-M:T0_STOxMna4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=qYgMHy6ny-M:T0_STOxMna4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=qYgMHy6ny-M:T0_STOxMna4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=qYgMHy6ny-M:T0_STOxMna4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=qYgMHy6ny-M:T0_STOxMna4:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=qYgMHy6ny-M:T0_STOxMna4:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/qYgMHy6ny-M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 25 years ago today when the first dot-com was registered &#8212; Cambridge, Masssa.-based Symbolics computers. Over the years, dot-coms became symbolic of both the Internet bubble and bust; now they&#8217;re simply part of our everyday lives. More than 650,000 dot-com domains are registered every month; current estimates put the total number at over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}