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Re:Build a giant live scrolling tickertape display by EvanAnderson on Saturday May 01, 2021 @07:54AM (#27005522)
I wish I'd known, back in the 90s, that I didn't actually need DNS hosting arranged in order to register domain names. The form asked for DNS server names and I assumed that my registrations would have been rejected because somebody would be checking to see if the DNS servers were actually authoritative for the domain.
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Re:Build a giant live scrolling tickertape display by fooblat on Saturday May 01, 2021 @08:05AM (#27005591)
At the time I was getting dialup service from a small regional ISP.

One day I asked them if I could use my own domain name and they happily offered to host the dns records, make my dialup IP static, and set records for www,mx, etc. All for a small one time setup fee which I gladly paid.

I had previously been given an old sun box which I then setup with a modem on a dedicated phone line (with auto-redial) and suddenly I had my own internet site in my apt!

I have so much nostalgia for those magical days.

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