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The 15 year anniversary of YouTube.com

February 15, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Today marks the 15th anniversary of one of the most important and well know domain names. YouTube.com was registered 2/15/05 according to whois. Technically it was activated on February 14, 2005 with video upload options being integrated on April 23, 2005.

The first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.

Of course Google acquired YouTube.com in October of 2006

Whois Record Information

Registrar: MARKMONITOR
Creation Date: February 15, 2005
Expires: February 15, 2021
Nameservers: NS1.GOOGLE.COM NS2.GOOGLE.COM

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Filed Under: You Tube

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

Comments

  1. Joern says

    February 16, 2020 at 10:10 am

    Happy Birthday Youtube! Impressive how the founder was able to scale it so fast that he was able to sell it to Google after just one year!

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