GMail in 1995??

I was just researching some domain names, checking whois records. An very interesting thing that I found out was that, the domain gmail.com was created on 13-aug-1995 while the domain google.com seems to have been created only on 15-Sep-1997!!!

Comments

[Ashish]

Very interesting - is what I came up with. I was interested to find out who the previous owners were (I doubt - it was Google) but they all ask for a fee which I was not that interested to pay :-)

Try:

1. http://www.whois.sc - showsthe number of previous whois records it has

2. http://openaccess.dialog.com/ip/ - shows all the owners and history of a domain.

[netsol]

It was because a british company had registered the domain and google bought it from them in 2003.

[ap]

ya, i think when gmail was announced, i recall reading some article "gmail by any other name ..." - which mentioned gmail.com as already registered.