Comment by rob
20 hours ago
I think domains were even free in 1994. I think the owner of rob.com told me he just had to send in a form or something back then.
20 hours ago
I think domains were even free in 1994. I think the owner of rob.com told me he just had to send in a form or something back then.
They were. I think it was 1995 they started charging? I had dozens of domains. There was a simple text file form you had to type over. Then they started charging $200/2yr for .com/.net/.org and a lot of us let our domains go which ended up being worth tens of millions a few years later during the boom.
(the story at the time of what killed the "free" is that Unilever mailed in 19,000 forms; one for each of their registered trademarks)