What Was The First ECommerce Site?

December 3rd, 2006 • Related • Filed Under

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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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, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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    Comment by johnlee on 2 January 2008:

    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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