If you go back far enough, domains were an email away or at most a one time fee. I had one back that long ago, and remembered paying something for it, but that

If you go back far enough, domains were an email away or at most a one time fee. I had one back that long ago, and remembered paying something for it, but that was because I didn’t have my own server. This was for a uucp/email gateway, so I needed someone with a server to batch up the email for me to download. This was in the 93-94 range.