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Symbolics.com was the first-ever registered domain on March 15, 1985.  Looking back over the past 25 years, the growth of the Internet has been unprecedented writes Benny Evangelista in the San Francisco Chronicle.  His article outlines some interesting facts:

• In 1985, only six entities registered a .com, one of six top-level domain names created a year earlier in a reorganization of the early Internet’s naming bureaucracy. At the time, .cor (short for corporate) almost beat .com as the designation for commercial Internet addresses.
• By 1992, fewer than 15,000 .com domains were registered, but the number would flourish after Web browsers brought mainstream consumers onto the Web.
• Today there are 84 million domain names, including 11.9 million e-commerce and online business sites, 4.3 million entertainment sites, 3.1 million finance-related sites and 1.8 million sports sites.

Want to know what the first ten registered .com domains were?