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When internet domains were free

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Imagine a utopian era where you didn't have to pay a yearly extortion fee just to own your own name on the internet. Before 1995, the National Science Foundation footed the bill for all domain registrations. Then Network Solutions was granted the right to start charging a hefty one hundred bucks for a two-year registration, effectively inventing the modern digital real estate market and ruining the fun for everyone.

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