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It was 1991. They were an up start tech company. It was a different time.
by madeofpalk 1y ago
It was 1991. They were an up start tech company. It was a different time.
- joezydeco 1y agoYou could also register a domain for free by sending an email form to a bot. It was truly the wild frontier.
- qingcharles 1y agoThe sheer number of multi-million dollar value domains you could snag in those days was wild. All that ended when it changed to, IIRC, $200/2yr and everyone suddenly dropped all their parked domains.
- joezydeco 1y agoWe were all a bit high and mighty and believed commercial use of the Internet was an awful idea. So grabbing any domain for selling things (cars.com, movies.com, sex.com) was out of the question. We were so, so wrong.
- mattl 1y agoAnd I'm sure it was the responsibility of a single person editing /etc/aliases in Emacs, not a big drawn out process too.
- mixmastamyk 1y agoThe biggest factor is the small company… same could happen today.