= bitcoin.org
{c}
{title2=2008-08-18}
https://bitcoin.org
Official <Bitcoin> domain registered by <Satoshi Nakamoto>.
Registration: 2008-08-18 by https://www.namecheap.com[], an <American> company. But using a privacy oriented registrar: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/89532/how-did-nakamoto-untraceably-pay-for-registering-bitcoin-org It is unknown how he could have paid anonymously, so it seems likely that the true identity could be obtained by <law enforcement> if needed.
First archive 2009-01-31: https://web.archive.org/web/20090131115053/http://bitcoin.org/ Also from the archive history https://web.archive.org/web/20100701000000*/bitcoin.org[], things really started picking up on July 2010. This is almost certainly due to the opening of