List of the oldest currently registered Internet domain names
Rank Date of registration Domain Registered to
0 January 1 , 1985 edu DARPA
1 April 24 , 1985 berkeley.edu University of California , Berkeley
1 April 24 , 1985 cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University
1 April 24 , 1985 purdue.edu Purdue University
1 April 24 , 1985 rice.edu Rice University
1 April 24 , 1985 ucla.edu University of California , Los Angeles
6 April 25 , 1985 rutgers.edu Rutgers University
7 May 23 , 1985 mit.edu Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8 June 27 , 1985 harvard.edu Harvard University
9 July 5 , 1985 columbia.edu Columbia University
10 July 15 , 1985 cornell.edu Cornell University
11 July 18 , 1985 uiuc.edu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12 July 24 , 1985 udel.edu University of Delaware
13 July 31 , 1985 umd.edu University of Maryland , College Park
14 August 13 , 1985 utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin
15 August 20 , 1985 usc.edu University of Southern California
16 September 30 , 1985 wisc.edu University of Wisconsin-Madison
16 September 30 , 1985 uci.edu University of California , Irvine
18 October 4 , 1985 stanford.edu Stanford University
19 October 7 , 1985 umich.edu University of Michigan
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This is a list of the oldest extant registered generic top-level domains used in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Until late February 1986, Domain Registration was limited to organizations with access to ARPA. Public registration was revealed on USEnet on Feb 24, 1986.