Domain names, those little addresses you type in your browser to get to a site are one of the backbones of the web. They are the online version of real estate and if a name is attached to a valuable brand or the word itself is sought after, they can be worth millions of dollars! Did you know in 2010 insurance firm Quinstreet bought Insurance.com for $35.6 million? Webmasters will know the importance of choosing the right domain name, with descriptive terms (like ‘Insurance’) aiding search engine optimization and short words tending to be good for branding a business (just look at ‘Twitter’). A new ac ts sheet from WebmasterJury.com looks at 101 important domain name facts, but here’s 10 we didn’t even know about … They Were Born In The 80s When we think of the web most of us think of the 90s, but the Domain Name System (DNS) was actually invented as far back as 1983, by Paul Mockapetris. The very first domain name to go live was Symbolics.com and you ca...
