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I wish domains still cost $100/year. Before that, you had to know Jon Postel to get one

I can't be the only one that remembers the (free) email robot that would assign domains in the early 90s. And I don't know Postel.

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I also remember those dark days of having to use those temperamental and brittle email forms. I also remember how the turn around time was measured in days. Better hope you didn’t make any mistakes!

My first few domain names were registered in 1995 when the turn-around time on the email template was about three weeks. I barely missed registering kl.com. There was a minor error on my template (name servers). Three weeks later I got the error message and immediately resubmitted but someone else had also submitted a registration in the meantime and theirs was processed before mine. I had to settle for kl.net.

It was at roughly that same time that I got ASSIST.MIL (the first CERT for all of DOD) up and running inside the span of a single week.

That was one of my proudest accomplishments during my time as the DISA.MIL Technical POC. That shit wasn’t easy back then.

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