12 Jan
2005
12 Jan
'05
8:46 a.m.
John wrote:
Something's been bothering me since I read it.
In the newspaper's el-cheapo weekend supplement*
it stated that:
Registered Internet Domain names, 2005: 63 million,
which is believable, but then said
Registered Internet Domain names, 1985: 6.
This doesn't seem right. 200 I'd believe, but not 6.
20 companies and 60 Universities I'd believe, not 6.
The DNS spec (RFC 882 and 883) wasn't published until
November 1983, and it took a while for DNS to replace
the old hosts files. In 1985 there were still many
sites that weren't yet using DNS. Even so, 6 does
sound too low even for 1-Jan-1985.