Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> writes:

> HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> wrote:
>> > symbolics.com
>> > first to be registered under the Domain Name System (DNS) process
>> > and only five others during the rest of that year!
>> > today there are 160,000,000 .com's alone
>>
>>
>>
>>    was   Symbolics.com  (domain name)  bought by a jokester?    When?
>
> I'm guessing that whoever owns the remaining assets of Symbolics let
> the domain registration lapse. 

No, I'm pretty sure that the domain was sold by the old owner of the
domain.