First Tourist Sites
that use "Visit"
in their domain format
Visitors Bureau / VBs / CVBs / Travel Organisations
Destination Management Companies
Type your research (city or country)
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| 1985 | ||
| USA | Registration of the first 6 dot com domains | |
| 1991 | ||
estimated first registration of VB.com VB.com does not jet realise it's the acronym for "VisitorsBureau" | ||
| 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  | |
| Germany | Visit Germany.com reg 31-03-1997 domain for sale | |
| Britain | Visit Britain.com reg 22-04-1997  | |
| Belgium | Visit Belgium.com reg 22-07-1997 | |
| Salt Lake City / USA (UT) | Visit Salt Lake.com reg 07-08-1997 pioneer  | |
| Luxembourg | Visit Luxembourg.com reg 11-11-1997 activated 12-1998 beautiful  | |
| Austria | Visit Austria.com reg 11-11-1997 sleeping domain domain not actif The National Tourist board uses a new gTLD | |
| 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 | |
| more coming | ||
| Leading to VB.com and the Global Visit List | ||
| 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 | ||
The phenomenon to use the world "visit"
in the name of a Visitors Bureau
statrted in California.
In America Tourist ofcices
are called Visitors Bureau / VB
or Convention and Visitors Bureau / CVB
1995 was registered VisitMomoth.com
1996 followed 18 Visitors Bureau
14 from the United States
and the national Tourist Bords
of Canada, Europe and the Maldives.
