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Nobody saw a value in domain names. People didn't think we'd run out of domains. People didn't think that the internet would become mainstream, or that it would
by ant6n 8y ago
Nobody saw a value in domain names. People didn't think we'd run out of domains. People didn't think that the internet would become mainstream, or that it would continue to exist in that form for a long time.
- ci5er 8y agoPaul Allen sued me (us) to claw interval.net back in early 1995...
- ghaff 8y agoFor that matter, /8 blocks were given out, if not quite like candy, certainly with considerable abandon. A fair number of the early universities and companies who registered ended up with complete /8 blocks all to themselves. [EDIT: Duh. Of course, it was actually Class A blocks at the time.]
- falcor84 8y agoJust to nitpick, this was before CIDR, so you're probably referring to Class A blocks, of which there were only 125 (the first octet being 1-9,11-126).
- bena 8y agohttps://xkcd.com/195/ https://xkcd.com/195/ Maybe a little out of date by now, but still, you can get a feel for it. Apple, Ford, HP, DEC, Xerox, among others all have full /8 blocks.
- mrbill 8y agoHalliburton had 34.* and 134.132.* as of 2015 when I last worked there, but I looked a few months ago and they've sold off some of that /8 to Amazon and others.... A lot of places with /8s are fixing their wasteful allocations and making good money off of it.
- ghaff 8y agoYep, MIT also sold off, as I recall, about half of their Class A to Amazon a while back.
- icedchai 8y agoClass C's were literally given out like candy. I have my own /24, and know several others who do, as well.
- acuozzo 8y ago> Class C's were literally given out like candy. Are you implying that they were printed out, individually packaged, and offered in a bowl?
- icedchai 8y agoTotally. ;) In all seriousness, I had friends who emailed Internic with fake company names and their home address. They received a Class C allocation in about a month.