| 1985 |
|
| USA |
Registration of the first 6 dot com domains |
| 1991 |
|
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estimated first
registration of VB.com
VB.com
does not jet realise it's the acronym for
"VisitorsBureau"
|
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|
| 1995 |
|
| Mammoth / USA (CA) |
Visit Mammoth.com
reg 14-11-1995
 |
| |
|
| Paris / France |
Electrica for Sony /
Cremerie de Paris
opens an avant-garde
Internetcafe. |
| |
|
| 1996 |
|
| |
|
Rhode Island / USA |
Visit Rhode Island.com
reg 15-02-1996
|
| Bloomington / USA (IN) |
Visit Bloomington.com
reg 11-04-1996
|
| Vallejo / USA (CA) |
Visit Vallejo.com
reg 17-94-1996 |
| New York / USA (NY) |
Visit New York.com
reg 22-04-1996
independant
|
| Washington / USA |
Visit Washington.com
reg 22-04-1996
inependant
 |
| Canada |
Visit Canada.com
reg 22-04-1996
independant
Canadian Tourism Commission CTC
is never able to get the domain
 |
| Quebec / Canada |
Visit Quebec.com
reg 22-04-1996
independant |
| Vermont / USA |
Visit Vermont.com
reg 01-05-1996 |
| Maine / USA |
Visit Maine.com
since 13-06-1996 |
| Bath / USA (MN) |
Visit Bath.com
since 18-07-1996 |
| New England / USA |
Visit New England.com
since 20-07-1996
independant |
| Connecticut / USA |
Visit Connecticut.com
since 20-07-1996
independant |
| Jackson / USA (WY) |
Visit Jackson.com
since 30-07-1996 |
| Europe |
Visit Europe.com
reg 17-10-1996
 |
| Madison / USA (WI) |
Visit Madison.com
since 17-10-1996 |
| Williamsburg / USA (VA) |
Visit Williamsburg.co
since 06-12-1996 |
| Las Vegas / USA (NV) |
Visit Las Vegas.com
since 14-12-1996 |
| Maldives |
Visit Maldives.com
since 27-12-1996
 |
| |
|
| 1997 |
|
| Paris / France |
Visit Paris.com
reg 09-01-1997
domain for sale
|
| Mexico |
Visit Mexico.com
reg 31-03-1997
aquired 2001
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| Germany |
Visit Germany.com
reg 31-03-1997
domain for sale |
| Salt Lake City / USA (UT) |
Visit Salt Lake.com
reg 07-08-1997
pioneer
|
| Austria |
Visit Austria.com
reg 11-11-1997
domain not actif
The National Tourist board
uses a new TLD
which looks outdated today |
| |
more coming |
| 1998 |
|
| California / USA |
Visit California.com
reg 10-11-1998
|
| |
more coming soon |
| 1999 |
|
Aarhus / Denmark
|
Visit Aarhus.com
reg 11-09-1999 |
| Fort Wayne / USA (IN) |
Visit Fort Wayne.com
reg 26-10-1999 |
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more coming |
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|
Leading
to VB.com
and the
Global
Visit List
|
|
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|
| 1671 |
|
| Paris / France |
VB, Hotel de Villeroy Bourbon
turns into an avant-gare tech company,
the
Royal French Postal Services.
The place becomes a Telecom Hotspot
and the connection point of the
postal families
Pagot & Rouille and Thurn & Taxis.
King Louis XIV loves et efficiency of VB.
Also Louis XIV remembers the VB mansion
from his childhood.
more about a tech story leading to VB.com / Global Visit List.
|
| 1738 |
|
Paris / France
Brussels / Belgium
Frankfurt and Regensburg / Germany |
King Louis XV, The successor of King Louis XIV
is envious of the
succes of the private VB Telecom network.
He withdraws the
Postal License from the Pajot Rouille family.
He has no acce to Thurn & Taxis based in Brussels
.
End of a Story.
Over time the story is forgotten bin Paris,
but it remains in the memory of the Thurn & Taxis
|
| 1985 |
|
| USA |
Registration of the first 6 dot com domains |
| 1986 |
|
| |
Johannes Thurn & Taxis shows the VB mansion to Ben Solms,
a 20 year old student.
Thurn & Taxis beleives energy of his ancestors, the old postmasters
connected to VB
250 years before
is sleeping in the walls of VB.
Through his grandmother is also a descendant of the Bourbons.
He gives the student a "Postal Taler" inherited from his ancestors
with the mission to find a new idea
in Tele Communications.
|
| USA |
Registration of the
54 next domains
including 3 "Two Letters",
The 676 ultra short
Two Letter Domains are today most valuable
category of Internet domains.
HP.com, TI.com
and GE.com are the Pioneers |
| 1987 |
|
Paris / France
Tokyo / Japan
|
"Electrica", a small Sony Phone Boutique opens
1989 Akio Morita (Sony) hears about the little Boutique
and
explains young Ben Solms (Electrica)
the importance of catchy, easy to remember brand names. |
| USA |
Registration of the est 45 more domains
among them
Apple.com
reg 18-02-1987 |
| 1991 |
|
| |
VB.com
estimated first
registration of VB,
a "Two Letter dot com", ultra visible on any computer keyboard
The domain
does not yet realise it's the acronym for
many different things including
"Visitors Bureau" |
| 1992 |
|
| |
The little Phone Boutique creates
an avant-garde website
 |
| 1993 |
|
| |
The Sony Phones
and a little jewel left by the fashion designer Coco Chanel made it possible
to get a loan to aquire next door Cremerie de Paris / VB.
Ben Solms is too young to have know Coco Chanel in person,
but they had a friend in common.
Aimee de Heeren transmited the little jewel
and their sense for glamour and style.
In some way the two Ladys are the "god-mothers"
of the Global Visit List helping to Cremerie de Paris
in it's early days
long before
before the VB.com Internet activites had come alife ..
Cremerie de Paris has a unique tech story.
A story that left
and a story that is about to return ... |
| 1995 |
|
| Paris / France |
Electrica for Sony /
Cremerie de Paris
opens a Sony Service Center
growing into
an avant-garde
Internetcafe
in the old Postal Mansion.
|
| |
|
| Paris / France |
Electrica for Sony / Cremerie de Paris
is strugeling
as there are not enough clients in the cafe.
The only visitors were a few American tourists.
Sony activities fall apart
after Akio Morita stepping down as Sony Chairman.
The Boutique starts
to sell Callback Phone lines for US Telephone companies |
| 1997 - 1999 |
|
| |
As Paris Hotels
are not jet connected
many eraly American webusers come by the cafe
In the small images Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin,
Apple founder Steve Jobs,
dot com inventor / pionner
Jon Postel
 |
| 1999 |
|
| |
In the Cybercafe is invented
Phonebook of the World
soon promoting
Tourist Offices
from around the globe
|
| 2005 |
|
| |
Web has become accessible averywhere
the Cybercafe cloese |
| 2007 |
|
| |
Steve Jobs invents the iphone. hyphen / minus signes "-"
are removed from
the main phone keybird
soon making
websites-with-hyphens.com look obsolete |
| 2011 |
|
| |
The former Cybercafe
reopens as
a Pop Up Store location
using it's historic name
Cremerie de Paris |
2017
2018
|
|
| |
first
first Destination Pop Up Store at Cremerie de Paris organized by the French Departement "La Manche".
Attitude Manche, today Visit Cotentin.com
 |
| 2023 |
|
| |
VB.com realises
it's also an acronym
for Visitors Bureau,
english for
Office de Tourtisme
Phone Book of the World creats
a
special List
for DMOs
that useVisit
and .com
By the end of the year
the List features
329 active websites |
| 2024 |
|
| |
01-01-2024
the List features over 500
active "Visit" Sites
24-08-2024
Creation of the
Global Visit List
including ccTLDs
The site starts with 788 "Visit"
|
| 2025 |
|
| |
08-02-2025
Global Visit List
reaches 1.000 active "Visit" Sites
XMas
The Kingdom of second Destination
Pop Up Store
by Kingdom of Morooco,
Visit Morocco.com |
| 2026 |
|
| |
01-01-2026
1.10 th "Visit"
listed with
launch of
Visit Bad Reichenhall.com |
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