That was $100 for two years actually. In 1998, it was lowered to $70 for two years, after some legal wrangling over 30% of the fee going to an "Internet Intelle

That was $100 for two years actually. In 1998, it was lowered to $70 for two years, after some legal wrangling over 30% of the fee going to an "Internet Intellectual Infrastructure Fund", which was likely to be deemed an unconstitutional tax, since the US government was still overseeing domain registrations back then.