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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by raldi on Thursday November 08, 2018 @06:15PM (#18410934)
My comment is addressed at "Same goes for DNS. You used to request the name and it was yours. No yearly fees."
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by zeckalpha on Thursday November 08, 2018 @10:20PM (#18412111)
> Originally a file named HOSTS.TXT was manually maintained and made available via file sharing by Stanford Research Institute for the ARPANET membership, containing the hostnames and address of hosts as contributed for inclusion by member organizations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)

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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by raldi on Thursday November 08, 2018 @10:52PM (#18412207)
And where do you think the money to pay the ARPANET contracts came from?
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by raldi on Monday November 12, 2018 @02:41AM (#18431147)
Well, in case anyone was wondering, the answer is US taxpayers: http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x07
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by lolc on Thursday November 08, 2018 @07:21PM (#18411342)
Sorry. Didn't catch the context.
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