初期ウェブの時代

1990–1999

1989年のティム・バーナーズ゠リーによるWorld Wide Webの発明は、インターネットを学術研究ネットワークから世界的な情報プラットフォームへと変貌させました。1990年代を通じて国コードTLDが急増し、商業ドメイン登録が爆発的に増加し、投資家がインターネットスタートアップに資金を注ぎ込むにつれてドットコムバブルが膨張しました。1998年にはICANNが設立され、急速に拡大する名前空間に対する世界的なDNS調整とガバナンスをもたらしました。

意義

ウェブはインターネットを民主化し、ドメイン名を初めて価値ある商業資産へと変えました。1990年代のドメインの争奪戦は、ドメイン名の投機市場を確立し、国際的なガバナンス機関の必要性を浮き彫りにしました。

主要な出来事

3月 12, 1989 Technology Change
World Wide Web Invented by Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee submitted his landmark proposal 'Information Management: A Proposal' to CERN management on March 12, 1989, outlining the system of hypertext documents and links that would become the World …
8月 6, 1991 Milestone
First Web Page Published at CERN

Tim Berners-Lee published the first public web page at CERN on August 6, 1991, at the URL http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. The page described the World Wide Web project itself. This event marked …
4月 22, 1993 Technology Change
Mosaic Browser Launches, Triggers Domain Registration Boom

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications released Mosaic 1.0 on April 22, 1993, the first widely available graphical web browser for multiple operating systems. Mosaic made the World Wide Web …

.com .net
9月 14, 1995 Milestone
First Paid Domain Registrations: NSI Introduces $100 Fee

Network Solutions Inc. began charging $100 for a two-year domain registration on September 14, 1995, marking the end of free domain registrations and the birth of the commercial domain market. …

.com .net .org
1月 1, 1997 Milestone
.de Becomes Europe's Largest ccTLD, Surpassing 1 Million

Germany's .de ccTLD surpassed one million registered domains in 1997, becoming the first European country-code TLD to reach that milestone and one of the first ccTLDs globally to do so. …

.de
6月 1, 1997 Milestone
.com Registrations Cross One Million

The .com TLD surpassed one million registered domains in mid-1997, a landmark that would have been unimaginable when the extension was created in 1985 with just a handful of registrations. …

.com
1月 1, 1998 Acquisition/Merger
.tv Sold to Verisign for $50 Million

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu signed a lucrative deal with a consortium that later became part of Verisign (through the acquisition of the .tv Corporation) to commercialize its country-code …

.tv
9月 18, 1998 ICANN Decision
ICANN Founded to Govern Global DNS

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was incorporated on September 18, 1998, as a nonprofit public-benefit corporation. The US Department of Commerce transferred responsibility for DNS coordination …
4月 1, 1999 ICANN Decision
WIPO Launches Domain Dispute Arbitration Center

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) established its Arbitration and Mediation Center in April 1999 to handle domain name disputes arising from cybersquatting and trademark conflicts, shortly before ICANN's UDRP …

.com .net .org
12月 1, 1999 Milestone
business.com Sells for $7.5 Million — Record at the Time

Business.com was sold for $7.5 million in December 1999, setting a world record for the highest price paid for a domain name at that time and signaling the peak speculative …

.com
3月 10, 2000 Milestone
Dot-Com Bubble Peaks: NASDAQ at 5,048

The NASDAQ Composite index reached its all-time peak of 5,048.62 on March 10, 2000, marking the apex of the dot-com bubble. Domain names had become speculative assets — business.com sold …

.com