.ORG, The Public Interest Registry Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Very First Registration - MITRE.org.

As one of the original top-level domains, .ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) today congratulates The MITRE Corporation for being the first registrant 25 years ago with the .ORG domain. Purchased on July 10, 1985, MITRE.org jumpstarted over 8 million subsequent registrations by becoming the very first .ORG domain holder. In the decades since joining .ORG, MITRE -- a not-for-profit organization that provides systems engineering and information technology support to the government -- has utilized MITRE.org as its organization's homepage sharing MITRE's latest news, projects, and mission areas (see also .ORG, The Public Interest Registry).

"Twenty-five years ago the Internet …