Only 6 Domain names ?!?

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Mon Jan 17 08:45:01 2005

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:

> > I registered 'american.com' in um, 95 an it caused a bit of a stir :-)
> > seems the folks at american university (american.edu) didn't like that
> > (but hey, the company was called 'american internet' so it seemed
> > natural).
>
> My recent win was getting ebt.com, which is a company that I used to
> work at, and whose assets (some of them anyway), we now own. The whois
> on that is 93... EBT was one of the founding members of the W3C, and I
> wanted to preserve the time stamp.
I registered Linux.com and Linux.net in early 94. And yes, those
caused a stir, both and the time, and much later :)

At that time, I was working at a startup in Mississippi (yes..), and
later "moved in" with InfoMagic, where we decided to move operations
from NJ to AZ. Since I was bored, I decided to put our T1's to better
use, and started up our ISP-part of the business, which we sort-of
had even in mid-1992, albeit off a 56K switched circuit using a NeXT
as a shell box.

--f
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