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I lost quixote.com (which I'd had since domain registrations were free) to a missed renewal while I was in grad school. To add insult to injury, the ultimate owner of the domain name had a parking lot filled with trucks with quixote.com painted on the side that I had to drive past every day on my way to the university.
Were you in Los Angeles? If so, I used to drive past the same lot!
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,…
3a. Organization name:Yer Mama Net Productions"
Ahh the good early days of technology.
http://www.links.net/webpub/domains.html says: > It used to be free, now you have to pay $50 a year for the priviledge ofyour own address. Some people aren't standing for it, Refuse to Pay!. The "Refuse to Pay!" link 404s, but is present in the Wayback Machine, and is an amusing read: https://web.archive.org/web/19970606222403/www.alaska.net/~n...
Imagine if registration had stayed free, there'd be no domain squatters, and that cool idea you had that only works if the domain is available would be possible!
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,…
Nowadays website using IP without https are blocked behind a red wall by main stream browsers
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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…
There is. Adding a massive amount of TLDs. I’ve wanted my family name ccTLD, but it’s been occupied by a gospel choir. Fortunately there are hundreds to choose from now.
The project is slowly gaining traction, what with Namecheap and Porkbun getting in on it too.
- [0]: https://handshake.org
- [1]: https://namebase.io
- [2]: https://bobwallet.io
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Nowadays website using IP without https are blocked behind a red wall by main stream browsers
Come to think of it, I’ve never seen a plain IP used with HTTPS.