Re: Spam

From	Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com>
Newsgroups	chi.internet
Subject	Re: Spam
Date	2016-02-15 17:08 +0000
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID	<n9t0lh$a4f$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
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Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
> Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
> 
>> Why they had it in the early days, I don't know. Probably email since web
>> sites barely existed. Remember back then, domain names were first-come,
>> first-serve and in theory was yours forever, and basically free (no annual
>> renewal).
> 
> Ha, looks like I made a boo-boo.
> 
> I thought the domain names were free to register but whilst looking for the
> lame delegation email (couldn't find), I found our stash of templates used
> to create the domain name.
> 
> This is in the 5/96 version:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> An initial charge of $100.00 USD will be made to register the Domain name.
> This charge covers any updates required during the first two (2) years.
> The Billing Contact listed in Section 6 will be invoiced within ten (10)
> days of Domain name registration.  For detailed information on billing,
> see:
> 
>    ftp://rs.internic.net/billing/billing-procedures.txt
>    http://rs.internic.net/guardian/
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> But I really don't remember cutting checks for them.

I checked my old email and I think I figured out how this worked.

You could register for free, but had to pay the $100 if you wanted to keep 
the domain. Basically, you got the domain for free, they'd wait to collect 
money and if months later you never payed, they shut it off.

There was one domain I really liked that I was using, and I also know I 
never payed $100 for it, and I did lose it eventually, but it took a long 
time. I can't locate any domain registration emails from before 1997 
though for some reason.

I keep thinking this had to do with the fact that in 1997 companies were 
not paying for domains with credit cards and needed to mail in a check or 
something awkward like that. No problem for the rest of us there was no 
was in hell Insurance Company B would have a corporate credit card for 
buying domain names.

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