History of Public Registering Domain Names Could Public Register say Cars.com for the standard registration Fee from Day 1?

[Planet9]

I can't find anything online about the History of Domains being allowed to be registered by the Public and at what standard registration price, etc. I'm not talking about some poorly written technical, ambiguous book but something in readable detailed English. I'm curious if when the Public was first allowed to register domain names were they all for the same standard price, whar was it, what were the terms- I could have sworn at one point it was for a limited amount of years, etc. I know I missed out on everything but I'm not clear what exactly I missed out on. Back then I could not afford to register a single name for say $300 a year. I'm just curious in those days were names like baseball.com, birth.com, names.com, electronics.com, available to the public to register at the standard registration price whatever it was. Does anyone have any background? No I'm not interested if there was a thread on this 12 years ago, sorry. Anyone know if there are any books they'd rrecommend on the subject?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I'm curious if when the Public was first allowed to register domain names were they all for the same standard price

Yes, there was no such thing as tiered or premium pricing at first.

You can probably look at an Archive.org version of the first registrars (NetworkSolutions.com, Internic.net, SRI.com, AOL.com, Register.com, Gandi.net) to get a feel for what it was like back then.

Also, these might be worth checking on Archive.org:

• nic.ddn.mil
• psi.net
• inww.com
• corenic.org
• compuserve.com

Let us know what you find!

 

[DomainBFF]

Yes, there was no such thing as tiered or premium pricing at first.

You can probably look at an Archive.org version of the first registrars (NetworkSolutions.com, Internic.net, SRI.com, AOL.com, Register.com, Gandi.net) to get a feel for what it was like back then.

Also, these might be worth checking:

• nic.ddn.mil
• psi.net
• inww.com
• corenic.org
• compuserve.com

Let us know what you find!

Wish me luck