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eli on April 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Meet the 'Mann' who registered 14,962 domains in 2...

Was that before Network Solutions? I bought a domain in maybe 1996 or 1997 and it was decidedly not free

rachelbythebay on April 22, 2012 [–]

Yep. Then it jumped to $100/2 years before competition brought the prices down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions#Registry_and_...

IP space used to be free, too, as long as you could justify it. What times those were.

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