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There were always yearly fees; it's just that prior to 1995 they were paid for by the US taxpayers instead of the domain owners.
by raldi 8y ago
There were always yearly fees; it's just that prior to 1995 they were paid for by the US taxpayers instead of the domain owners.
- atq2119 8y agoThose literally weren't fees. The dictionary definition of fee is "a payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services". Hence, there were no fees. Stop engaging in pointless (and even incorrect!) sophistry.
- raldi 8y agoThose literally were indeed fees. The National Science Foundation paid Network Solutions a payment, per registered domain, in exchange for the service of registering it.
- lolc 8y agoIP-Addresses and domain-names are only tangentially related. Just because you pay a fee per domain-name does not mean it's the same for network addresses.
- raldi 8y agoMy comment is addressed at "Same goes for DNS. You used to request the name and it was yours. No yearly fees."
- lolc 8y agoSorry. Didn't catch the context.
- zeckalpha 8y ago> Originally a file named HOSTS.TXT was manually maintained and made available via file sharing by Stanford Research Institute for the ARPANET membership, containing the hostnames and address of hosts as contributed for inclusion by member organizations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)
- stordoff 8y agoDefinition 1.1: "Money paid as part of a special transaction, for example for a privilege or for admission to something." I'd say that applies.
- xenadu02 8y agoThe cost to run the DNS servers was fixed (and mostly still is, at least compared to the money raked in by registration fees).
- raldi 8y agoThat's both untrue and irrelevant to this discussion.