The "dot com" suffix that has become an inescapable part of our everyday lives turns 25 years old today. "On 15 March 1985, the first company to add dotcom to its name was a computer maker named Symbolics," the BBC reported. Six domain names were registered that year. Today, 100,000 "dot com" sites are added daily to 86 million total active sites. (Another 113 million, give or take a few, have come and gone over the years.) "Mark McLaughlin, CEO of Verisign, the company responsible for looking after the dotcom domain, said: 'Who would have guessed 25 years ago where the internet would be today and the number of businesses that have been built on it,' " the BBC reported.
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