Office Hours - Find a Domain for Your Website (Issue #360)
This task is getting harder and harder every year
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First, a fun little tech history fact. On March 15, 1985, the first .com domain was registered. It was symbolics.com for Symbolics, Inc., a computer manufacturer based in Cambridge, MA. They went bankrupt in 1996.
By the end of Q3 2021, 364.6 million domain names were registered across all top-level domains. While overa…