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What's your oldest .co.uk domain?

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This kind of carries on from Grant's post from last year (Oldest UK domains), but I just realised that adg.co.uk (which I bought last year) was registered 02-08-1994 making it one of the oldest.

I've heard there may be inaccuracies with these dates, but I was just interested to see if anyone here has anything as old or older?
 
I don't have many with age as most of mine are catches, these are my 2 oldest domains that I bought:

norwichcity.co.uk - 1997
crazypaving.co.uk - 1999
 
05-08-1994

Would be interested to know how accurate those dates are :)
 
I doubt we'll ever know how accurate they are, but does anyone know what or how old the oldest .co.uk domain is?

I guess most of the older names will remain registered and sold rather than let go, but I know plenty of pre-Nominet domains do still drop.

There’s no real benefit in age, but it’s interesting to see what people have.
 
9 November 1994 according to the DAC on Lancaster/couk
 
A few of my own regs go back to 1999 never thought of checking if they had previous - seems like yesterday, If you knew then what you know now eh
 
my oldest (according to the DAC) is july 95 - monaghan.co.uk, they were all hand reg back then, even got a phone call from Frontier Internet (my ISP back in those days) to confirm the domain was being registered for business purposes :)
 
Hoe do you get an accurate date?

Checked Coventry couk and got 'Registered on: before Aug-1996'

How can I find out more?
 
It looks like members here have some pretty old domains. I would have been 5 when adg.co.uk was registered so even if I knew then as I do now it wouldn't have made much difference. My first hand reg was in 2007 so I was relatively late to the domain scene.

I checked the dates using the DAC for anyone who doesn't know how to get past the block on the WhoIs
 
Hi edwin.

I have had my eye on that name for 8 years, tried buying it loads of times. it went susp last time i checked?

Are you selling it?

Sean


9 November 1994 according to the DAC on Lancaster/couk
 
freepcsoftware.co.uk was my first .co.uk reg - 15/02/2009.

edit - wrong!
 
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Hi edwin.

I have had my eye on that name for 8 years, tried buying it loads of times. it went susp last time i checked?

Are you selling it?

Sean

No, it's going into the geo network I will be building.
 
Since no one has suggested an older domain reg date, is it safe to say that 02-08-1994 is the reg date of the oldest registered domains? Does anyone know if any were registered before, whether expired or not?
 
Since no one has suggested an older domain reg date, is it safe to say that 02-08-1994 is the reg date of the oldest registered domains? Does anyone know if any were registered before, whether expired or not?

They were registered way before that I think but the dates seem screwed. I posted this a while ago:

http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/domain-research/73385-oldest-uk-domains.html

<edit> Just realised that post is referenced at the start of this thread :) </edit>

Grant
 
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but, it's a .com :cool:

Pretty old, a purchase or did you register it?

They were registered way before that I think but the dates seem screwed. I posted this a while ago:

http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/domain-research/73385-oldest-uk-domains.html

<edit> Just realised that post is referenced at the start of this thread :) </edit>

Grant

I saw your post a while back and severl months later bought adg.co.uk without realising it was on there. When searching the domain the other day your post came up so thought it would be interesting to see if it was one of the first registered. I guess I'll assume so until proven otherwise.
 
Pretty old, a purchase or did you register it?



I saw your post a while back and severl months later bought adg.co.uk without realising it was on there. When searching the domain the other day your post came up so thought it would be interesting to see if it was one of the first registered. I guess I'll assume so until proven otherwise.

Sorry to piss on your chip Alex, but interramp.co.uk is also 2nd Aug 1994. ;)
 
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