What Was The First ECommerce Site?

Everton | Dec 03, 2006 | View Comments


I’ve just started using StumbleUpon and the first site that came up today listed the 100 oldest dot com domains.  I found it amazing to see how slowly the internet grew in it’s infancy, with it taking 18 months for the first 100 domains to be registered.

What I found even more amazing, that not one ECommerce site is in the first 100 sites.  I’m surprised it took so long for people to see the money-making potential of the internet.  I would have expected at least a few cyber-squatters to be in the first 100 domains.

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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • The first website with full real-time credit card clearing was designed by Synergy Communication/Synergy Media for ConAgra's Eagle Mills http://www.eaglemills.com/ in 1996.

    http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.eaglemi...

    I was actually the VP Sales & Marketing and sold the solution to ConAgra and helped develop it. We actually rigged a Sparc server to clear the credit cards real time... it took about 2-3 minutes to process, but it did work.
  • Anna
    Hi - I was wodering if you knew the url for the first e-commerce website launched in 1998? - Thanks Anna
  • Great point! eCommerce has come a very long way in the past decade and a half the Internet has been around. Funny how the list doesn't include any ecommerce sites, but then in the infancy stages of the Internet, ecommerce was way too primitive and under-developed still. I think Amazon should be on it at least, though.
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