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Domain Names That You Didn’t Know Existed

According domaintools.com’s statistics, there are currently 101,272,937 active domains in the world. Some of those domains hold an interesting value, history, and/or facts.

• nordu.net
  Home of the Nordic Infrastracture for Research and Education is the oldest domain name ever registered.
  Record created on 01-Jan-1985
• llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochuchaf.org.uk
  Not only this is the longest domain name, this domain is actually one word named after a Welsh village.
• sex.com
  Reportedly sold to Boston-based Escom LLC for 14 million US$, this domain is currently the most expensive domain name.
• g.cn
  Google owned 1 letter domain for Google China.
• u.tv
  UTV Media Group’s, a broadcasting and New Media company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, domain.
• z.com
  Owned by Nissan.
• x.com
  Owned by Paypal (Ebay)

  Paypal Labs is PayPal’s showcase site which allows you to take our experimental products for a spin.

• x.org
  Owned by X.Org foundation.
• q.com
  Owned by QWest.
• com.com
  Owned by CNET.
• example.com (.org, .net)
  Reserved second level domain names owned by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) that are used for testing purpose.
• [A-M].root-servers.net
  DNS root servers.

Reference:

1. http://valleywag.com/tech/domain-names/the-shortest-domain-name-ever-318368.php
2. http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/long2.html
3. http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum25/637.htm
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver
5. http://www.buydomains.com/domain-resources/domain-trivia/what-is-most-expensive-domain-name-ever-sold.jsp

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