The domain era begins with Tim Berners-Lee who started developing the first web browser and editor at CERN in Geneva (Switzerland) in September 1990 and at Christmas 1990 the first website in human history http://info.cern.ch/ was launched.
After this the most advanced technology companies at the time run to register a bunch of domain names. Here a short list of the first 15 domains regristration in history. 30 years later we have more than 300 millions registrated domain names and round about the half are .com domains.
| Rank | Date of registration | Domain |
| 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 |
| 11 | March 19, 1986 | sun.com |
| 13 | March 25, 1986 | intel.com |
| 13 | March 25, 1986 | ti.com |
| 15 | April 25, 1986 | att.com |