That wasn't the early days of the internet. It was free when I registered ear.org in probably 01994, 24 years after the ARPANET started and 16 years after the

That wasn't the early days of the internet. It was free when I registered ear.org in probably 01994, 24 years after the ARPANET started and 16 years after the first TCP/IP internet nodes. You just had to have a nameserver set up. Shortly after that they started charging, and I hadn't carried out my plans with it, so I let it go, figuring that someone else would make better use of it. They didn't.