For those of you who bought domain names when it was 99$/year
 

do you still have to pay that much per year?

or do you pay what they are offering now?

im guessing at the time you renewed it, you payed the current rate?

no you wouldnt have to

Domains can be easily transferred to another, cheaper registrar

I paid $100 a year via Netsol and, in fact, have an invoice in front of me from June 29, 1996 when I had to renew my domain for $100. "Internic" was the name, of course. It was lowered to $70 for 2 years after a while. I still have few domains there and while they advertise them for $35 per year, I pay about the same as I'd pay at GoDaddy.

Back then we had to wait a month for the site to be added and the DNS to work.

Oh yeah, bandwidth was $12.50 a gig, too.

12.50$/gig?!?!?!? what the fuck :|

2 iSDN lines : 980/month :1orglaugh

Yep, that was the cost. I had a colo and had to pay a fee of $250 a month plus the bandwidth charges. There weren't a whole lot of choices for adult hosts back then either.

Back then The Hun listed backdoors in paysites, not galleries. Want to guess what I had to pay for a single day from that?! It was a good lesson learned about closing directories!

But, in those days, you could post a single photo to Usenet and get 50 signups to your paysite every day for a week or more.

It was $100 for 2 years, and then it was lowered to $35/year and then competition entered which plumetted the rates, thankfully.
WG

We also had to walk 12 miles in the snow with no shoes to the nearest datacenter.

You forgot I had to get up at 4 am to milk the cows and sheer the sheep first.

WOW !You're lucky, our data center was 20 miles away and they had to amputate one of my feet because of frostbite:Oh crap

100$ domains rock

ahhh the days of $100 dollar domains ad $1500.00 a month for your own dedicated T1 because there were very little datacenters like today and none of them wanted adult so you had to have your own T-1 to do what you wanted.

I remember those days like it was 1994 - 1997 again :)

Actually it remained at $35 at Netsol. Tho they do have a discount at $19/year if you renew for 100 years:winkwink:

One major PPC sponsor at the time, and I still have one of their banners in my archives. Of course, they folded without a word, owing a lot of us money, then resurfaced a year later and are now one og the largest sponsor programs.

I remember doing a few bucks a day then my site was on the Howard Stern Show and all of a sudden it was up to a hundred a day before dropping off a week or so later.

BTW, nice to see you resurrected from the dead.