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LOL, that's an interaction style you won't see today from the faceless domain registration dickheads.
(Not exactly, Sir; I'm more like fucking the envelope ...)
I was trying to register this too in 1994. I guess it was a race between several of us to register stupid domains. I was also bending their ears to get them to let me register the remaining single-character dotcoms. It is heartwarming to see the Internic form on that page - you used to type up the text file and email it to them and wait. You could have pretty much any domain you wanted in 1994. Except fuck.com. Also,…
an ol' buddy of mine has always claimed to have owned apple.com back in those days but he said they just took it from him one day. He would have been pretty young then, like 10 (and, yeah, that sounds right for him). Maybe he lost it because they started charging! haha.
lol, when you discover c__t.com links to a wikipedia page.
I don't think you need to censor yourself here...
I saw John McWhorter discuss that "cunt" is one of two unspeakable words to Americans. -- I think McWhorter's discusison is pretty interesting: https://archive.md/ImjgJ
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At least they did something with it. One of my domain names has been on sale for 10.000$ by a squatter for a few years after a billing issue.
That would bother me too since they're only buying it to resell. Over a decade ago I emailed a domainer/squatter to ask about a domain that matches my sister's married surname. It was the ccTLD version, not even the .com. At the time, they told me they didn't accept offers of less than $2k, so I offered them $100 as an insult and forgot about it. 8 years later I get a random email asking me if I'm still interested in…
I was trying to register this too in 1994. I guess it was a race between several of us to register stupid domains. I was also bending their ears to get them to let me register the remaining single-character dotcoms. It is heartwarming to see the Internic form on that page - you used to type up the text file and email it to them and wait. You could have pretty much any domain you wanted in 1994. Except fuck.com. Also,…
Amazing how quickly it transitioned to a more mainstream web. We had internet at home in 1995-96 and I registered my first domain in 1997 - by that time domains and DNS worked pretty much like today.
And by then it was too late. It was already broken beyond repair.
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why write them out longhand, you were just using ftp at a shell? I remember gui clients in that era that would store them. cuteftp on windows at some point mid 90s, and before that something else, maybe ws_ftp.
I’m not op but I have a very funny, related story. In the nineties, my parents occasionally logged into my computer and stared at it for 15-20 minutes before going upstairs and turning on the television. Saving numbers in the computer box meant that I was breaking into the CIA and selling secrets to the Russians (while fornicating). Writing the same things down in a notebook was okay.
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If registration were free one guy would write a script to register every possible domain and no one would be able to get one without buying it off of him.
Easy to handle, just use the rules of that time — single domain for single IP. Not applicable to v6 and dyndnses, but something like this can solve it.
I was trying to register this too in 1994. I guess it was a race between several of us to register stupid domains. I was also bending their ears to get them to let me register the remaining single-character dotcoms. It is heartwarming to see the Internic form on that page - you used to type up the text file and email it to them and wait. You could have pretty much any domain you wanted in 1994. Except fuck.com. Also,…
Amazing how quickly it transitioned to a more mainstream web. We had internet at home in 1995-96 and I registered my first domain in 1997 - by that time domains and DNS worked pretty much like today.
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Amazing how quickly it transitioned to a more mainstream web. We had internet at home in 1995-96 and I registered my first domain in 1997 - by that time domains and DNS worked pretty much like today.
In a way, one of the more prescient things I have done in my life was to register the .org for my surname in 1999. I wasn't the first, but my timing was good. I do use it, so it's not just sitting idle.
Happily after moving from the UK to Finland I did manage to grab steve.fi, which had expired within the first year of my relocation.