The first .com (Symbolics.com) was registered all the way back on March 15, 1985, and at the time noone could have predicted the kind of impact the web and domain names would have on our day to day lives.
According to DailyChanges.com, there are currently 84,784,196 .com domain names registered – a huge statistic which will only rise as the .com continues to prove that it is the king when it comes to domain names.