1997

• In 1997, The United States Department of Commerce (USDOC) assumed all administration of the gTLD. NSI continued to provide the operations and maintenance.
• In 1997, RFC-2068 was published by Tim Berners-Lee establishing the first version of the HTTP protocol.
• In 1997, GoDaddy is founded.
• In 1997, Netflix is founded.
• In 1997, AOL Instance Messenger (AIM) was released.