May 22nd 2024
Dustin has been shopping around for a few domain names recently and one of them has been deemed "premium" by the registrars, but is not currently registered. He's done some research and found that there's clearly a lot of flexibility and variability in the premium pricing for the domain. Registrars seem to vary pretty aggressively on both initial cost and renewal. His question therefore is who is your go-to for domains like this? Who offers the best deal? And if it's not already registered, is it premium? Who decides if a domain name is premium, what factors are used to determine the price, and is that price negotiable? Share your thoughts in the thread.
Tom's first post on WHT is to look back at web hosting in the 90s and remark that it all sounds like a total pain. By 1995 you could create a personal website on geocities.com. Everyone knows that. But what's less well documented is how real companies (e.g. amazon.com) hosted a website behind their own domain. 1995 strikes Tom as an interesting time because it's before HTTP/1.1 (there's no "Host" header, so virtual hosting is out of the question), most internet is dial-up and major web sites still used today launched (Amazon, eBay). He'd like to know what options companies had to host a website on their own domain in 1995. Could companies buy a dedicated server from a hosting company? What was the process? Did each server come with its own IP address as standard? What were the costs? Over to you to explain!
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