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Internet history : The man who gave away NYT.com for free

Posted by DomainGang on March 7, 2017, at 8:18 pm

In 1994, registering a domain name was still free. John Markoff, registered NYT.com between 3 to 5 years earlier, despite what the registration date of the three letter .com asserts. Those were the days of the pre-commercial Internet, when domain names were still viewed as exotic, and very few had the means to access them. […]

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